If you've got a GX (or an 8-bit framebuffer at least), then trying to do "-- -bpp 16" is useless as far as I would expect.
What you can do, though, to help out is run something like netscape with the -install option, which will give it it's own color map. > * Jeffrey Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04/29/99 18:18] wrote: > > Max wrote: > > > The man page for startx claims that one can use the -bpp option to > > > select the color depth, yet my X server complains that it can't > > > recognize it. I'm using the 8 bit server on a SPARC 2, so am I to > > > understand that -bpp is redundant because it only supports 8 bits? > > > WindowMaker looks like it's only using 16 colors, so I'm trying to see > > > if there's any way to get it to look halfway decent. I don't think > > > the 24 bit server will work on this machine. > > > > startx -- -bpp 16 > > That's exactly what I'm doing and here's the output: > > Unrecognized option: -bpp > use: X [:<display>] [option] > > It then proceeds to give me a list of options that it does recognize > and bpp isn't on the list. > > Max > > -- > The hopeful depend on a world without end > Whatever the hopeless may say > Neil Peart, 1985 >
