Re: enlightenment and gnome colormap problems

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

>From: "Jean-Raymond.Chauviere" <Jean-Raymond.Chauviere@cetelem.fr>

>Maybe it will be better to look around /usr/sbin/m64config
>this command configure your video. Its name depends on the
>video you have. Other old name was fbconfig.
>
>on an U5
>m64config -prconf # gives the possibilities
>On my station I ran
>m64config -depth 24 -res 1100x900x76
>and I have no colors problems


That's because you had a 24-bit framebuffer and were using it configured as 
8-bit =O}.  Unfortunately the original m64 configuration was 8-bit only at a 
useable resolution, as it only had 2M VRAM.  This is what was shipped on the 
original Ultra 5/10 mobo and the first PGX PCI graphics cards.  Later (about 
9months to a year later) Sun switched to 4M and 8M cards, known as the PGX-24 
and PGX-32, and also upped the onboard VRAM on the newer 5/10 mobos.

So yes, find out what kind of card/onboard graphics you have (look at your dmesg 
output) and run the configuration tool for it to see if you can up the colourmap 
- i.e. m64config, ffbconfig, afbconfig, etc.  The original PGX can do 
800x600x16bit, but ummm...  No =O).   Then you may also need to tell your 
Xserver to use "-defdepth 24" or whatever for that screen as the default root 
configuration fo rit to usefully effect Enlightenment, depends.

But as I already posted, I'm not sure that colourmap dithering is the sole cause 
of this problem.

Ta,

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