I intended to copy this to the list.  I discovered the same problem after
getting a 19" high resolution monitor for my home machine last year.  As
my Matrox Millenium II has only 4MB, I had to switch from 32 bpp to 24 bpp
(before that, all I had was an ancient bog-standard 640 x 480 VGA monitor :-().
After a few hours of admiring my nice new monitor I noticed that the Netcape
toolbar had gone monochrome (well, sort of - in my case it was black, white
and RED!).  I don't think the Netscape website said anything about it being
Millenium II-specific.

Having been unable to find a 4MB memory upgrade at a reasonable price,
and not wanting to reduce the resolution below 1280 x 1024, my X server
is now configured for 16 bpp (at least until the double-headed G400 gets
a bit cheaper).


Roger

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:49:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: Roger Brooks <rsb@liverpool.ac.uk>
To: Mark Davies <mark@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: XFREE 3.3.6 and i810 Chips (fwd) 

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Mark Davies wrote:

>Well here's what we've found from playing with an 810e box for a couple of 
>hours.
>

>Having got it to this state most applications I've tried seem to work fine but 
>netscape displays mono icons in its toolbars

That's a known problem with Netscape not working properly in 24 bpp mode.
There's something about it on the Netscape website (under Linux).
Use 16 bpp or 32 bpp.


Roger

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