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To: E. Charters who wrote (2356)	10/29/2000 5:18:26 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

What color depth are you running X at???. The problem you describe sounds like what I call palette flash. I think I've run everything you mentioned at once and other image editing tool except the gimp that I think sucks as a program and I don't bother to check if it is installed. my check for palette flash. Start xv and use {ctrl v} to open a schnozer window and move mouse to activate schnozer window... Do screen colors flash. xig allow 8 15 16 24 and maybe 32 I think. I use 16 which is 64k colors no palette flash at 15 or 16 color depth. Sometimes I may get it at 24 which is true color in very rare circumstances with certain video cards. I don't remember. But at 15 or 16 I never get palette flash and you cannot tell the diference between a color depth of 15 or 16 or 24 or 32 even with a color perfect 2500.00 SGI sw1600. Now below is the config file for my dual display xig system. Compare it to the Xfree86 config file. Oh the sgi1600 only has one resolution. you can set multiple when you use a multisync you can then hot key to different resolutions with a virtual desk of the max resolution. [ 548 ] > cat /etc/Xaccel.ini // // Accelerated-X (tm) Display Server, Version 4.1, Xaccel.ini created at Wed Feb 23 02:59:22 2000 // [FONTPATH] "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/fonts/misc/", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"; [RGBPATH] "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/etc/Xrgb"; [KEYBOARD] Layout = "en_US.xkm"; [MOUSE] Device = "/dev/mouse"; Protocol = PS/2; [SCREEN] Board = "number9/revIVFP-32.xqa"; Monitor = "sgi/1600sw.vda"; Depth = 16; [RESOLUTIONS] 1600x1024; [SCREEN] Board = "number9/revIVFP-32.xqa"; Monitor = "sgi/1600sw.vda"; Depth = 16; [RESOLUTIONS] 1600x1024; Tom Watson tosiwmee