From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 31 19:55:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24863 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:55:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA24857 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id TAA17726 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:55:26 -0800 Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id ab28357; 31 Mar 96 22:55 EST Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA21643; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:55:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA03802; Sun, 31 Mar 96 22:55:07 EST Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:55:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Matt Thomas Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0b2 - Problem Found! In-Reply-To: <199603311717.RAA19257@whydos.lkg.dec.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Matt Thomas wrote: > Reading this string of mail seems to imply either a window manager problem > or a resource problem. Have those experiencing problem tried running > netscape with -install so it installs a private colormap? Does it change > the behavour? What window manager do you run? Well, I thought you might be onto something, but it didn't pan out as expected. I brought up X with no window manager and continuted to get the same problem, a complaint about not being able to allocate "SlateBlue". Then I remembered that this was my default backgronud color for xterms, and it was clearly already allocated. I then restarted X without a .Xresource file and got a slightly different message. Netscape still complains with "Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background." Now I am running the S3 server in 8 bits, so I am assuming that it wants more than 256 colors. The only effect -install had was to delay the colormap message until I loaded a page with java code in it, instead of poping up immediately. cheers, Adrian System Administrator for the NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine labs adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/