[rescue] How to stop colormap flashing w. Creator3D Buffer

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:03:08PM -0800, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> Hi Y'all!
> I have a quick question. I am running solaris 8 on a Creator3D machine
> (it's alive! Ken) and I have observed some applications that do not use
> the 24-bit colormap (TrueColor), and I can see a certain degree of
> colormap flashing. I thought that was normal with the ol' 8bit TGXs... but
> this is supposed to be a 24bit frame buffer! WTH?
> This happens specially when I use XV as the background image manager
> (whoah, that was a cool marketoid term, eh?). The darn thing will
> not start on a 24bit colormap, unless it is windowed (not in root window
> mode). When xv is running then other applications will go through the
> colormap flashing. Is there anything I have to set within Xsun?

Did you force the window system/X to 24-bit/truecolor mode?  You may only
be running in 8bit mode even if you have a creator3d.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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