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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 1280x1024x16
> > 
> > This gives me a 1280 resolution screen but only 8-bit color
> > 800x600x24 also gives me 8-bit color (light turquoise)
> > 
> > I would think Xvesa would provide more colors, since Xvesa 
> > -listmodes gives a long list of possible resolutions and 
> > color depths.  
> 
> I believe that Xvesa can be compiled with varying capabilites.
> It is possible that your version was compiled with a 8-bit
> limit.
> 


Why would someone compile Xvesa, which requires a VESA 2.0 card, for 8-bit 
color?  All my my VESA 2.0 cards have 4M RAM and do 16 million colors at 
high resolutions.

I will download and try JP's tinyx on the same card and if that also does 
only 8-bit color, ask JP if it works better for him.  Or contact the
delilinux forum for help.

We discovered that if you change from a 150 MHz Cyrix to a 166MHz Intel 
cpu, the pci video card stops displaying a cursor and color until you move 
it to pci slot number one.

sindi keesan