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From: mags@visionware.co.uk (Maggie Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How can I get 256-colors?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.190045.26775@visionware.co.uk>
Date: 16 Apr 91 19:00:45 GMT
References: <11034@ncar.ucar.edu>
Sender: Maggie Thomas
Reply-To: mags@vision.UUCP (Maggie Thomas)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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In article <11034@ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) writes:
>We have a VGA card and monitor which claims to be able to support 256
>simultaneous colors.  What we want to do us use VisionWare X-Vision
>(X11R4 server software) to run UNIX X clients that display 256 colors.
>Has anyone out there accomplished this?  Are there settings in Windows 3.0
>that allow you to run with 256 simultaneous colors?
>
>Thanks.
>
>--Tim

You have to have a copy of XVision 3.2 or later to use all 256 colours
which your display has.  If you have this version, check that your client
actually uses 256 colours.  If it does, check that you have installed the
correct Windows driver for your card, and that it is in a directory in your
path.  It may have to be in the Windows directory.  If you can get 256
colours to display in Windows, you should be able to get them to display
with your X clients using XVision.  

Maggie.