[rescue] How to stop colormap flashing w. Creator3D Buffer

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

Thanks! That worked like a charm..... 


> > The darn thing will
> > not start on a 24bit colormap, unless it is windowed (not in root window
> > mode). When xv is running then other applications will go through the
> > colormap flashing. Is there anything I have to set within Xsun?
> >
> Xsun root windows defaults to 8 bit, you can force Xsun to 24bit in the root 
> window with the following:
> 
> #mkdir -p /etc/dt/config
> #cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers /etc/dt/config/
> #vi /etc/dt/config/Xservers
> 
> change the last line:
>    :0   Local local_uid at console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner
> 
> to: (all one line, no CR in the middle)
>    :0   Local local_uid at console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner
>  -dev /dev/fb0 defclass TrueColor defdepth 24
> 
> then tell dtlogin to re-read the config file so it will use 
> /etc/dt/config/Xservers instead of /usr/dt/config/Xservers.  I think you can 
> use:
> 
> # /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -reset
> or reboot the machine.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> George
> 
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