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Date:Mon Dec 10 11:56:42 1999 
Subject:Re: Help needed -- popvision and linux (XpwAllocColorRange) 
From:Andrew E Sayers 
Volume-ID:991210.02 

> The Sun has an 8 bit colour display whereas the PC uses 24 bits (I
> think). But I don't think that can be the cause of the problem.
> (X uses only 8 bits anyway??)

XFree86 (which Linux is probably using) can use non-8 bit colour, and
some programs do complain at it for doing so.

So long as you've got an 8-bit display mode set up, you can do `startx -
--bpp 8` (I think it's - --, but it might be -- - or just --) to get it to
start up in 8 bit mode; alternatively ctrl-alt-+ (on the number pad) will
cycle through all the available modes while you're running X (is that
XFree86-specific?)

Also, I think that `xvidtune` will tell you the current pixel depth of
your screen.

	- Andrew