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Re: 16-bit color




On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, Daniel Baum wrote:

> It seems I do have a problem with the 16-bit color 
> after all.
> Although X is now working at 800x600 in 65000 colors, 
> when I switch out of X to a virtual terminal, X 
> crashes immediately.

If you have 16M ram (or more), that is probably the cause.
You said you have a cirrus logic card. 16-bit color works with CL
only in linear address mode, and most 5428 have their linear
frame buffer at 14M, that collides with the system memory.

Matan Ziv-Av      matan@actcom.co.il