From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 16:24:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05192 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server5.singular.com (server5.singular.com [204.140.208.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05183 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JBarbee@server5.singular.com) Received: by server5.singular.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:25:00 -0700 Message-ID: <71B40CA7B273D0119DBF080009B46D4003E18F@server5.singular.com> From: John Barbee To: "'Christoph Prevezanos'" , mmohsin@thinc.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Doom Error Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:24:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup i think, haven't done it in a while -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Prevezanos [mailto:Christoph.Prevezanos@post.uni-bielefeld.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 4:09 PM To: mmohsin@thinc.org; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doom Error 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message