Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:19:20 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com> To: Jason Gilbert <jason@homewood.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: # of colors displayed under XFree86 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951213210530.21975A-100000@miles> In-Reply-To: <199512132343.RAA23866@koala.scott.net>
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Jason;
I went through the same thing 2 weeks ago with an ATI Pro Turbo.
>I've tried adding the -bpp 16 option at the command line(I don't
>think it is having any effect)
run xdpyinf | more
and look for the depth lines:
...
number of supported pixmap formats: 2
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 <====
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 134
...
This will tell you the number of bits per pixel
>I've tried adding the -bpp 16 option
Where? I found I had to put it in 'startx' as follows:
userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
sysclientrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
clientargs=""
serverargs="-bpp 16" <===
Hope that helps. Just a bit of warning. When I went to TrueColor visual,
some packages broke. I have pixedit on my ctwm tools menu, and it
couldn't find the pallet to play with. Xfig also had problems allocating
colors when I tried to bring in a GIF file as an object. But xv displays
look real good now. Using xbench, I found that my x-stones went from
203196 in 8-bit mode down to 90375 in 16-bit mode.
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On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Jason Gilbert wrote:
> I have been trying in vain for the past week to figure out how to
> display more than 256 colors under XFree86. I have all the
> information that is required in the configuration program (chip type,
> RAMDAC, video memory, etc.) I entered it all and it still does not
> seem to work. I have a STB Powergraph Pro video card and a Gateway
> 2000 17" vivitron monitor. I'm only looking for at least 32K color
> (or more would be nice) and it works fine under windows 3.1.
> I've tried adding the -bpp 16 option at the command line(I don't
> think it is having any effect) and setting
> the VISUAL="PseudoColor" to TrueColor and DirectColor. The colors
> seem to lessen under Direct and display worse. Under True, the
> colors are fine until I start netscape and then when I move the
> pointer any where off of the netscape window the colors become
> psychadelic and when I move it back the colors return inside the
> window but the border is messed up. The colors inside the window on
> graphics are still splochy(sp?). This is mainly what I want to get
> rid of.
> Sorry this is so wordy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Jason
> Jason Gilbert
> jason@scott.net/jason@homewood.net
> http://www.homewood.net/
>
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