From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 16:05:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02023 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:05:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.4.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02013 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Christoph.Prevezanos@post.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from ripley (ppp39-1.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.39.1]) by hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id BAA02562; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 01:06:48 +0200 (METDST) Message-ID: <199809090108410110.0179A8D4@Postfach.Uni-Bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: <35F52989.896EA384@thinc.org> References: <35F52989.896EA384@thinc.org> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 2.40.35 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 01:08:41 +0200 From: "Christoph Prevezanos" To: mmohsin@thinc.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doom Error Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id QAA02018 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! >I installed Doom and configured Freebsd to run Linux binaries. When I >run Doom, it loads then it gives me an error saying that it requires 256 >colors to run. I am not sure what to do. Please help. I think you just gave the answer to yourself. Doom only runs in 256-color mode not in 64.000 or 16.5 mio. So just switch your X to this mode and Doom will run fine. The easiest way to switch the screen-mode is by the graphical config-util that comes with X. You can start it e.g. from the menue you get with "/stand/sysinstall". Regards, Christoph Prevezanos, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message