Half Life - error to play...

[aeav]

When I try to play the Half Life, I see this error:

Half-Life requireds 16bits color.



What I do to up my color in the X?

[sean_foulkes]

Why in the world are you using anything less than 16 bit color? Distro? Xserver? Window Manager?

[Satanic Atheist]

Originally posted by sean_foulkes
Why in the world are you using anything less than 16 bit color?

He could be using 24-bit or 32-bit colour...

Try editting /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) to set the colour palette. My machine is "locked" into 16-bit colour. Not much point in using anything else...

James

[aeav]

I'm using the Slackware 9.0 and my window manager's the FluxBox....


But, how I do to change the color for the file XF86Config?

[SuperNu]

You are going to have to edit XF86Config with your favorite text editor. Now, Red Hat 9 keeps XF86Config under /etc/X11/. If Slackware is different, type find / -name XF86Config* from the command line. Now, as root, you are going to have to edit XF86Config. Locate this section...
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
and change DefaultDepth 24 to DefaultDepth 16. Restart X and everything should be fine.

--SN

[Icarus]

Sometimes changing it to 24 from 16 takes care of this error also