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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Abiword
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:30:29 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

Dan Schmidt wrote:

The script in BL3 has three choices, one of
which results in a 640X480,

You can alter the resolutions directly by editing
/etc/Xconfig. I suggest you execute the following
to see what modes Xvesa has available on your system:
----------------
Xvesa -listmodes
----------------

As for abiword, I changed my screen to 600X800x12 to
test it out. (doing so makes the colors on my screen
go crazy - seem dark and blue)

Choosing 12, in my experience, is the same as choosing 15-bit color, and some video cards do not support that. Xvesa apparently uses 8-bit instead in this case. 8-bit on my computers looks like what you describe (crazy colors). I think it would make more sense to offer in Xsetup not 12 but 15 and 16 (with a note that 15 does not work with some video cards).

I suggest you try 800x600x16.


What video card are you using? Does it do 16-bit? If not, you are stuck with 4-bit or 1-bit (mono). I don't know why Xvesa won't work with 8-bit.


Cheers,
Steven
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