Color Scheme

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Color Scheme
started by: chazmo

Posted by chazmo on Aug. 10 2005,23:49

I have a 486DX AT&T laptop and have installed DSL on the HD. I've got it to work great but I'm having a problem. The laptop can support screen resolutions of 640x480x8 but when I use this resolution the colors look horrible. Xterm has a light blue background with dark blue text (AAHHGG) and my desktop and mouse pointer are both the same color of blue, the only reason I can see the mouse pointer is because the "texture" of blue on the mouse pointer is slightly different than my background. The only way I can get it to look good is to change my res to 640x480x4 but my web browsers will not work at a color depth of 4 bits. Does anybody know how I can change the default color scheme? How about changing the color scheme in xterm.

DSL has given new life to once obsolete hardware.

Thanks.

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 11 2005,03:47

Hmm..

You could try editing your /home/dsl/.xserverrc file and see if adding

-swaprgb

parameter before the "-mouse" command and then restart xwindows and see if it helps (startx command).

Or you can see if your graphics card is supported by the XFree86 dsl extension.

Also, maybe try framebuffer for 8bit mode instead of xvesa, IE: choose

dsl vga=769 xsetup

at boot prompt or modify your bootloader's config file to set

vga=769

then run xsetup.sh from the command line and choose the xfbdev server when prompted.