Ciccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I recently bought a new VGA card, and switched to 16-bit mode for X11, > > but I just found out that xfig can't handle colors now. When I try to > > select a color, xfig prints the message "Can't allocate necessary > > colorcells, can't popup color panel". This is obviously true, since > > X11 doesn't allocate color cells in 16-bit mode, but it is not > > necessary. Is there a workaround to tell xfig to use the existing > > colors, or can I tell X11 to simulate a writeable colormap? I didn't > > see that a bug report has been filed on this yet. > > > I'd don't use xfig, so no specific answer. If you have enough RAM, > try to get X into DirectColor mode. BTW, there are reasons why one > would like to use a color map even with 32 bit colors: when we want > to change colors without repainting all the image. This is used as > well for animations as for color (gamma, etc) corrections.
I think I have enough RAM (4MB S3-Virge), but the XF86Config manpage (for XFree86 3.2) states that only 8-bit color will support the DirectColor type. TrueColor is the only one supported on 16 or 32-bit. Just to be sure, I tried out all three statement types and only the TrueColor is accepted in 16-bit color. Is there some other way to set up DirectColor, or is it now allowed under XFree86 3.3? Thanks for your reply. -- Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .