Repost: messed up screenshots

2001-01-08 Thread Arcady Genkin
I have posted about this in the past, but the problem is still not solved. It's not that I need to do screenshots often, but... when I do, they come up all messed up: some colors are missing, etc. For an example please refer to http://www.thpoon.com/tmp/screen.jpg As you can see, the background

Re: Repost: messed up screenshots

2001-01-09 Thread Arcady Genkin
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have posted about this in the past, but the problem is still not > solved. It's not that I need to do screenshots often, but... when I > do, they come up all messed up: some colors are missing, etc. In case anyone was following, I solved the problem

Re: Repost: messed up screenshots

2001-01-09 Thread Carl B. Constantine
On 1/9/2001 15:30, Arcady Genkin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In case anyone was following, I solved the problem by switching my > default color depth in XF86Config (I had 16, and went to 32 bit). > For whatever reason screenshots didn't work under 16-bit, neigther > with gimp, nor with xv. Bal

Re: Repost: messed up screenshots

2001-01-09 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Baloney. I take screenshots with the gimp all the time and all I use is > 16-bit because of OpenGL games which require it. It must be something else, > what? I don't know. The fact remains, though. Switching color depth solved my problem. --

Re: Repost: messed up screenshots

2001-01-10 Thread Wandered Inn
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > "Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Baloney. I take screenshots with the gimp all the time and all I use is > > 16-bit because of OpenGL games which require it. It must be something else, > > what? I don't know. > > The fact remains, though. Switchi

Re: Repost: messed up screenshots

2001-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Wandered Inn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The fact remains, though. Switching color depth solved my problem. > > I'm running 16-bit as well with no problems with screen captures. How > much memory does your video card have? What are you running your > desktop at? Might you be running out

Re: Repost: messed up screenshots

2001-01-10 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-01-10 at 1859.01 -0500): > > > The fact remains, though. Switching color depth solved my problem. > > I'm running 16-bit as well with no problems with screen captures. How > > much memory does your video card have? What are you running your > > desktop at? Might you be