From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 10 21:00:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA28338 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from murkwood.gaffaneys.com (dialup5.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA28330 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zach@gaffaneys.com) Received: (from zach@localhost) by murkwood.gaffaneys.com (8.8.7/8.8.6) id RAA01644; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:23:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Zach Heilig Message-ID: <19971008172348.22454@gaffaneys.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:23:48 -0500 To: Doug White Cc: "Min Huang (tunny)" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 11:29:45AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 11:29:45AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > % ico -faces -colors red blue -sleep 1 > > ico: can't allocate enough color planes > > What's the matter? > This means that some program that uses a lot of color (Netscape et. al.) > is using up all the colors of your display. Either: I use a 32-bit display (card won't do 24-bit "packed" color), and I get the same message. There are far too many X programs that do not know how to deal with anything more than 8-bit color. -- Zach Heilig We know you are a good friend, but we have to charge you for our services just like our other customers. Actually, we don't like charging our friends, but we did a study of our clientel and discovered none of our enemies do business with us. [seen in a lawyers office].