Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:57:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86, Mozilla wierd colors Message-ID: <20030402095346.H819-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <3E8A8B44.2040108@trini0.org>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> I had to reinstall FreeBSD earlier (due to some carelessness on my
> part), and Im trying to
> install applications that I was using before.
> The box is running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, and using XFree 4.3.0, KDE 3.1
> along with mozilla 1.2 (from ports),
> mozilla displays incorrectly (mainly colors), and KDE's taskbar is
> unreadable (only when mozilla is not minimised).
> mozilla displays form buttons in pink, and overall things are just ugly.
> I ran into this problem before, but I cannot find the post in the
> archive at the moment.
> It was a setting for X that cleared it up.
> So if Im making sense to someone, could you point me in the right
> direction to fix this.
> If not, I can try to provide screen shots.
Your X server seems to run with 8 bpp color depth causing your X clients
to use private color maps.
> (...)
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
Try to insert
DefaultDepth 16
or
DefaultDepth 24
here!
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> EndSubSection
> (...)
Best regards
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