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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 17:55:13 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Min Huang (tunny)" <hmin@public.cq.sc.cn>
Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: color?
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On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 04:06:08PM +0800, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,sir,
>>>
>>>> ico -faces -colors red blue -sleep 1
>>> ico: can't allocate enough color planes
>>>
>>> What's the matter?
>>
>> This means that some program that uses a lot of color (Netscape et. al.)
>> is using up all the colors of your display.  Either:
>>
>
> I was not using those type programs, but just a CXterm(will be this??),and
> I was under startx -bpp 16 mode.

I think this is the real problem.  ico can't handle 16 bit mode.

Greg