i have a windows installation of half life, and this still occurs if'n i install it straight to a linux partition, so i dont think its that. the problem is that when i start up half life with wine (newish cvs), and after a while, a half life screen comes up, which says "Half-Life requires 16 bit color. Please change your desktop settings to HiColor. Sometimes this is called ..... etc". i have tried changing to 16 bit color for XFree, but that didnt seem to help it any
so what can i try from here? it looks like it would work, as that screen seems smooth enough to work!
not on this topic, but, what exactly are some of the valve people doing to help us with our problems? like porting some parts of it, or making work arounds or something?
Thanks!
Dijon Z||000001||crazney||12-19-2000||01:36 AM||dhammerton@labyrinth.net.au||Ok, first thing... i have no idea.. havent seen any correction for that problem yet.. what video card do you use?
secondly.. i got a email from valve saying they were "looking at the issues".. but so far i havent heard from them again.. the guy seemed nice.. his name is 'Dough Lombardi'.. email "lombardi@valvesoftware.com".. this was his message..
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Hi David,
Thanks for your interest and this mail. We'll look into these items
immediately.
Cheers.
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cheers, craz ;-p
Z||000002||ethereal||12-21-2000||09:50 PM||ethereal@thehelm.com||I was able to fix this, set your depth in X to 16 bit, and uncomment (take out the ;;'s) in front of ScreenDepth = 16.
Z||000003||xsirxx||01-04-2001||03:41 AM||xsirxx@yahoo.com||i have the same problem, i am running it off a windows partition though, maybe that is the key problem? did you do the same thing? i have a voodoo3 card but am running it off a windows partition setup for vmware which allows me to run windows in a box and is not setup for 16bit... maybe this is the reason? ill figure it out, please reply here and email, thnx much! but i do get same err0r
Z||000004||Mamer||01-22-2001||11:45 AM||alanb@home.com||To fix the 16bit color problem do
wine --winver win98 hl.exe -- hl.exe --console
It worked for me...
had the same problem.
Z||000005||Banshee||01-29-2001||11:09 PM||banshee@jecx.net||Doesn't anyone know where there XF86Config file is? Well anyway open a terminal and type
pico /etc/X11/XF86Config
Now look for the area where it says
Section "Screens"
a little bit down is DefaultColorDepth
change it to 16, now hit Ctrl+O and then enter to save and to quit Ctrl+X Now if you had X open while doing this his Ctrl+Backspace to close it and then type startx to open it again, now half-life should get past that warning (hehe if it will work totaly, probably not, it's very unstable in linux)
Z||000006||crazney||01-29-2001||11:13 PM||dhammerton@labyrinth.net.au||type xdpyinfo, check what color its running in
depending on your distro you may need to edit XF86Config-4