On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:55:36PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. > >> The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. > >> xterm has defaults for the color resources (compiled in), so that's normally > >> not a problem. Otherwise, when color is enabled there's no additional > >> resources controlling whether the 256-colors are available. > >> > > > sorry for coming back so quick, I found some info on the net and > > just restarted X with > > startx -- :1 -bpp 16 > > That looks right (for some reason I've forgotten, on one of my older boxes I > decided to not edit the XF86Config-4 file - probably to see what the automatic > configuration & updates would do). > > But perhaps your XFree86 config-file doesn't have a display defined for that > value. Mine's a bit hacked up (adapted settings from other systems my machine > boots on since the automatic configuration didn't work well). >
well, I'm at a bit of a loss -- I just went through dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and checked to make sure that 'depth' sections going all the way p to 24 were written into XFConfig86-4 -- no luck! and I definitely do have 256 colors enabled on mmy xterm... gaah! anyway, not that important, I cna live with 16 colors! Thanks for your help, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
