Myst (win 3.11) and 256 pallete display
Ron Johnson
ron.l.johnson at cox.net
Mon Mar 8 13:17:10 CST 2004
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 12:12, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:42:15AM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> > Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >I'm trying to install Myst on wine (CVS head). Installation goes, more
> > >or less, fine (winedbg pops up during end, but it completes
> > >successfully). When I try to run it, however, I get a complaint that it
> > >requires a 256 pallete display. Do I really need to downgrade my display
> > >to 8 bit?
> > >
> >
> > I had not tried Myst in awhile. It used to work ok for me (I have a
> > version that claims to be for Win3.11 and Win95, 256 colors), but
> > testing just now, the colors are severely messed up. It does generate
> > messages about:
> > fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from
> > 32 to 8
> > I am pretty sure I never saw those messages when the colors on Myst were
> > working.
>
> Do you have any Screen sections with Display sub-sections that have a
> "Depth 8"? If not, that may be the problem.
Would *all* of X have to be running in 8 bpp mode? Sounds like it,
but I don't know if there's a way to get around it.
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