It would be helpful to know which framebuffer you have. Even some that are 24-bit capable I believe are currently supported as doing 8-bit (which is 256 colors, BTW).
Look at http://www.geog.ubc.ca/s_linux.html and see if it tells you anything. At worst, if you don't know what card you have, email me the part number (something like 501-XXXX), and I can look it up for you. > Hello! > > I've successfully installed slink on my Sparcstation and am very happy > with it, but I have a problem concerning colors under X. I am running the > Xsun24 server, but have got only 16 colors... I'm afraid it is running on > 8bits depth (am I right?). I've tried to change that, but I haven't got a > XF86Config file neither a XF86Setup binary... Could some one let me know > how to increase the number of colors on my display, please? > > Thanks a lot for your interest, > Angel