Re: FVWM: 8-bit graphics mode

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 07:53:39 -0400

Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> writes:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:13:54PM +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> > It seems my AGP port stopped worked.
> > So now I sit with an old S3 card I found in a drawer in the
> > sysadmin's room at work.
> > The card has only 1 MB VRAM. So I tried to run 1024x768 in 8-bit mode.
> > But colours in FVWM is screwed up (white is blue). Does it depend on the
> > X-server? (The test provided by Xconfigurator (Redhat) seems quite OK).
> >
> > I use FvwmBacker to show backround XPMs, but should FVWM allocate it's
> > colourmap before, since FvwmBacker is started from FVWM?
> >
> > Or do I need to tell FVWM to use more colours?
>
> No, you want to tell it to use *less* colours. Try starting fvwm
> with "--color-limit <number of colours>" to reduce the number of
> colours used in pictures. You should also use private colour maps
> on all applications that support it (a la "netscape -install") and
> refine the colours used in your applications so that they all use
> the same colours.
>
> > What I find is the command line option -l.
> > It says in the manpage it uses colourcubes, doesn't this mean pure white
> > should be available.
>
> Pure black and white are always available. Hm.

I think, if the application requests a read-write color, there may
be a second attempt to allocate another white color cell.

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Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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