type "startx -- -bpp 16"
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Benjamin Vera-Tudela wrote:
> Hi all ...
>
> Thanks Richard and the rest for helping me with ddd. Puttin /usr/local/lib
> in /etc/ld.so.conf and ldconfig thing worked!!!
>
> Now, I have a very (hopefully) simple problem. I have a 4Mb ATI video
> card, which is enough to support 16Million colors. But, my X server runs
> in 8 bit color. How do I change it such that I run higher color depths?
>
> I keep getting "Cannot allocate color map" from Netscape and DDD (mainly
> b/c I am running AfterStep which takes probably most of the colors). How
> can i fix this?
>
> thanks
>
> Benjamin S. Vera-Tudela
> Computer Sciences Dept., UT Austin
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mrbenji
>
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