Folk'es,
I'm running CDE on Solaris 9 on an Ultra 60. My applications now have the problem of allocating the correct colours.
How/where can I change the colour depth so that they work again?
It worked fine while i was running Solaris 8 on the machine.
desperate,
thomas
forgot to mention, these are they kind of error messages i get:X Error: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "black"
X Error: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "grey"
X Error: Cannot parse default background color specification.
X Error: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "orange"
X Error: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "grey66"
X Error: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "light slate blue"
thomas
Guess you are using built-in video (M64 graphics accelerator).
You can use the m64config command to change the color depth, like
# m64config -depth 24
Log out of CDE, and log back in for the changes to take effect.
Word of caution, you'd probably need to lower your resolution, you'd be hard-pressed to go higher than 1024x678 without video performance suffering a bit.
> Guess you are using built-in video (M64 graphics
> accelerator).
> You can use the m64config command to change the color
> depth, like
thanx for the suggestion. but, no, I'm not using M64, I have FFB2+ graphics card. so m64config only gives me an error message:> m64config -propt
m64config: /dev/fbs/m640: No such file or directory
thomas
> ffbconfig -propt
OpenWindows Configuration for /dev/fbs/ffb0
OWconfig: machine
Video Mode: NONE
Default Visual: Non-Linear Normal Visual
Visual Ordering: Linear Visuals are last
Overlay Visuals are last
OpenGL Visual Expansion: enabled
Server Overlay Visuals: enabled
Extended Overlay: enabled
Underlay WIDs: 64 (not configurable)
Overlay WIDs: 4 (not configurable)
Gamma Correction Value: 2.220000
Gamma Correction Table: Available
and> ffbconfig -prconf
Hardware Configuration for /dev/fbs/ffb0
Type: double-buffered FFB2+ with Z-buffer
Board: rev 2 (Vertical)
PROM Information: @(#)ffb2p.fth 2.9 98/07/14
FBC: version 0x3241906d
DAC: Brooktree 9070, version 1 (Pac2)
3DRAM: Mitsubishi 130b, version 2
EDID Data: Available - EDID version 1 revision 1
Monitor Sense ID: 2 (Sun 36x29cm RGB color monitor)
Monitor possible resolutions: 1024x768x60, 1024x768x70, 1024x768x75,
1152x900x66, 1280x1024x60, 1280x1024x76, 640x480x60, 1280x1024x60c
Current resolution setting: 1280x1024x60
unfortunately it does not have an option for color depth (would have been too easy :(
No it doesn't, but Video Mode in the output of ffbconfig -propt should not be equal to NONE, it should be equal to your screen's resolution.
I have an FB buffer, and this is what it looks like:
#fbconfig -propt
OpenWindows Configuration for /dev/fb
OWconfig: machine
Video Mode: 1280x1024x76
Depth: 24
Screen Information:
Doublewide: Enable
Doublehigh: Disable
Offset/Overlap: [0, 0]
Output Configuration: Direct
Fake8 Rendering: Disable
Gamma Correction: no
> No it doesn't, but Video Mode in the output of
> ffbconfig -propt should not be equal to NONE, it
> should be equal to your screen's resolution.
i did try that before but with no better results. the reason why it is/was set to NONE is because i set everything to default after playing with a few settings.
> I have an FB buffer, and this is what it looks like:
>
> #fbconfig -propt
>
> OpenWindows Configuration for /dev/fb
>
> OWconfig: machine
> Video Mode: 1280x1024x76
> Depth: 24
>
> Screen Information:
> Doublewide: Enable
> Doublehigh: Disable
> Offset/Overlap: [0, 0]
> Output Configuration: Direct
> Fake8 Rendering: Disable
> Gamma Correction: no
>
very strange, your output looks quite different from mine. what Solaris version/patches do you have?
thomas
I found the cause of the problem. It has nothing to do with the FFB settings but the Xsun settings.
I changed the startup entry /usr/dt/config/Xservers from:0Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner
to:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -dev /dev/fbs/ffb0 defclass TrueColor defdepth 24
thomas
PS: I can't quite understand why these options are not settable via the desktop tools.
Glad that you solved your problem.
Since you asked, I have an XVR-100 graphics accelerator (/dev/fb), in a Blade 1500 running Solaris 10 6/06. Right after initial install, I set the resolution, but not the depth, which showed as 24 right after install. The difference in outputs is probably due to having different graphics cards. By the output, I believe you have a Sun Expert3D or Elite3D buffer?
> The difference in outputs is
> probably due to having different graphics cards. By
> the output, I believe you have a Sun Expert3D or
> Elite3D buffer?
no, I have a Creator 3D. it is quite an old machine which i happily used with Solaris 8. when i upgraded it to Solaris 9 i forgot to make the changes to the Xsun setup which i already had done for S8. but since it is so cryptic and well hidden, i couldn't remember, how and where i did it. (and i'm sure the next time i'll need it, i will have forgotten again).
as i said, i'm really surprised/annoyed that these kind of changes are not done through any of the Dekstop Control tools, where the obvious place would be...
thanx for your help and interest,
thomas
PS: at least one good thing came out of it: i now have a system which has all the latest S9 patches installed, incl new PROM and disk f/w :)
