True color setting for graphic card

poision · Post by **poision** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:55 am

Hi i just installed vericad a mechanical 2D and 3D cad application on my cassendra.Installation was successful but when i tried to open it it says vericad require true color setting so pls change setting.I checked everywhere in nvidia configuration setting and other x server config in control center but didnt find true color setting.Pls guide me how to change setting to true color.Thanks in advance

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:00 am

Hi poison, first off you triple posted.

Chances are the admins will not reply to you. Ask once, in the proper place for help. Somebody will reply.

Since you have a nvidia card, use envy to install the proper drivers on your system. After it is installed use the nvidia control panel to set your resolution and color preference.

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:24 pm

Don't triple-post !!!

We are no analphabets here, one posting is quite enough! A double-post could be an "accident", but triple ...?

poision · Post by **poision** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:17 am

hi 1st of all i m very very sorry carlos and scorp for trple post.i didnt post that purposely beleive me it was accident only..i was using gprs n my signal was dropping that time so i clicked again cos it showed me page not found screen pls dont be mad at me..hope u both ll not mind it now.

carlos i checked every nvidia setting there i found change color scheme to 16 million color,256 color and 32 million color i ve envy drivers only...so where to change now???

sorry again for post thank you

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:35 pm

You are forgiven - and I think scorp123 agrees. You use gprs - interesting. I could do that as a last resort, but I'd have to pay about half a euro for 15MB....

True color is the specification of the color of a pixel on a display screen using a 24-bit value, which allows the possibility of up to 16,777,216 possible colors.

You have to use the 32 bit resolution (millions of colors) which really is 24 bit, but let's not dig to deep

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:02 pm

Husse wrote: You use gprs - interesting. I could do that as a last resort, but I'd have to pay about half a euro for 15MB....

Yeap, GPRS or UMTS isn't exactly cheap (yet) ... Even in India I'd rather go for an Internet Cafe (the bigger cities have plenty of them) or WLAN hotspots somewhere somehow (all the many IT companies definitely have that plus it shouldn't be problematic to get WLAN access in the better hotels or in the various "business centers" ...).

Just a suggestion of course.

Your X11 configuration is in this file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf .... and inside of it there should be a line saying "Defaultdepth 24" <== so that would be 24-bit ..... "16" would be 16-bit (65536 colors), "8" would be 256 colors, and so on. Usually it should already be on 24-bit. I suggest you leave it like that.

poision · Post by **poision** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:15 am

hi thats scorp i ll see xorg well when ya visited india?in india now gprs is cheap i think i m paying 14000 indian rupees for one yr unlimited subscription with data card..which is near abt 259 euro...i got one scrip from ubuntu forum for running gprs on ubuntu...thanks

poision · Post by **poision** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:18 pm

Hi scorp thanks for help.Actually my default color setting was 16 i made it 24 now my vericad is working very well thanks.