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How do I configure 64K colors for CDE?

Solaris' kdmconfig offers only a choice of 256 or 16M colors for your
graphics board. To configure Xsun to use 16-bit color, configure using
kdmconfig for the desired resolution in 256 color mode. Note the board
line from file /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig.
Look in the referenced file in directory
/usr/openwin/share/etc/devdata/SUNWaccel/boards to see
if there is support for 16-bit color mode for your card.


If your board is listed, edit file /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig
and change defdepth="8" to defdepth="16" in it.
Also, values for MaxPClk for some cards are way too low in 16-bit and 24-bit
modes in file /usr/openwin/share/etc/devdata/SUNWaccel/boards.
But if you want to change this, you are doing it on your own risk.
Some applications hang on 16-bit colors.


The CDE logo that is displayed after one logs in is a bit-mapped
grayscale image(?!), but everything else should work just fine.


[Thanks to Aleksandar Milivojevic, by way of John Groenveld]



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