Not millions, but thousands.  Try thousands and see what happens.

Chris

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, henning loeser wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> once in a while I get the prove that I'm just clueless, so please bare 
> with me and I'd appreciate any help.
> 
> Being bored of my 256 grays X I installed 2MB of videoram into my Q700.
> Im running the Xmac68k_OSFA Xserver and I believed that booting into 16,7
> Millions of colors would give me color X.
> But it didn't. I got a screwed display shifted to the top with I think 
> the same thing shown 4 times.
> Booting in 256 colors -> X runs ok just the colors are wrong as expected.
> Booting into 256 Grays -> X runs as it did before.
> 
> I'm running a -current Kernel with the last videopatch installed.
> 
> Did I just understand everything wrong, that I can't run color X of the 
> internal video, not even in true color mode? I thought I just can't run
> color when the server needs to do palette-switching, but with true
> color I thought it would adress the RGB-values 'directly'.
> 
> Or do I have to configure the grf device or something for it to run?
> 
> Henning
> 
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> Henning Loeser            AG-Oberfl"achenphysik, Philipps-Uni-MR
> Email:henning.loeser@physik.uni-marburg.de
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