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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: How do I get 256 colors in the Background ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.003550.1627@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 00:35:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.122706.3566@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Nov12.122706.3566@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Volker.Stegmann@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Volker Stegmann) writes:
- >I've installed OS/2 2.0 and the 800x600x256 drivers that comes with the
- >Service Pack. I'm using a Speedstar Hicolor Card based on a ET4000 Chip.
- >When I try to set a picture in the background of the WPS I only get 16
- >colors. On the other side I get 256 colors in a windowed Windows-session.
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- Which picture? Try one of the sample BGA backgrounds, available via
- anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com. It will be clipped a bit,
- but it should work fine.
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