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Re: Allocating color problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Sun Nov 3 15:45:35 1996

Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 12:40:58 -0800
From: BORG <"vladimip "@iceonline.com>
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Mike Wangsmo wrote:
.....
> I would look into command line options for the applications that you need
> to run at the same time and find out if it is possible to alter the
> number of colors it is allocating for its colormap.  I think you have
> gotten beyond my background with Linux's default colormap stuff.  Maybe
> somebody else on the list will have some better suggestions.

Solution: 

startx -- -bpp 16

If doesn't work, re-run "xf86config" script or
upgrade your videocard to one that can go 16bpp
and higher.

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