From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 1 14: 2:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605C915546 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-110.charm.net [209.143.116.110]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29815; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:59:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37CD93FD.7A10ECF4@charm.net> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 17:00:46 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape hoggin' up all my colors References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews wrote: > > On 31-Aug-99 Gary Kline wrote: > > Do I need more than what I've got with my Matrox + 8MB or will > > (should) it serve? I'm guessing that most users aren't the kind > > of xterm-freak that I am and that they are happy at 1024x768. > > I'm a rxvt freak. ;> > > Your Matrox, with 8MB, should be easily able to handle my configuration. Just > try life on X11 with DefaultColorDepth set to 24 or 32. At a minimum you should > have 1024x768 or 1280x1024 for resolution. > > > I've just begun to get involved with the hardware-side details; > > you're notes have helped, so thanks much. If you know on any > > online references or that would help me focus in on these details, > > I'd be much obliged. > > A lot of people don't have their monitor and/or video card manuals (like I do > ;), so they usually run into problems trying to tune X11 as much as possible. > Checkout these sites for such info: > > http://www.monitorworld.com/ > http://www.tomshardware.com/ > > > Neat app, isn't it. Too bad not all the screensavers are separate. > > I don't mind - I can run most of them without too much lag. > > Take care, > > -- > Will Andrews After checking with xfree86[.]org and doing some other checking I now know I am stuck with the colors problem because Diamond SpeedStar64/2000 video is sold with 1meg of ram on purpose. Need 2meg (fill the board up) in order to do anything. Don't mind in my case 'cause this 486/100 will not be my primary forever, and I'll get more ram anyway. Thanks for the monitor guys. I did guess and figger pretty close but the exact numbers are helpful, no. -d --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message