On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:33:21AM +0000, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > > Sorry for the repost, I changed the subject, just wondered if anybody > knows what this means, trying to get this game to work for my > daughter: ) > > > Hi all, > > > > A question. When trying to run a game I have last seen running in > > Redhat 5.2 I get the following error: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ flying -pool flying: Game of > > Pool/Snooker/Carrom/Hockey/Curling for X-Windows $Revision: 6.20 $ > > $Date: 1995/10/03 13:26:57 $ Author: Helmut Hoenig not enough > > colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > I should be running 1024x768, 24 bit ... Don't quite understand > > this one. > > > > ( XFree 4.02, Potato and a half ( Progeny and KDE2.1 )
Despite the response by the game, I believe they will only run under 16 or 8 bit color. It may be trying to get a writable color map, but this is not possible under TrueColor (24/32 bits) where the color map is read-only. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>