From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 13:30:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C922337B404 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED7A43E7B for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:30:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA18476; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:37:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gADGbvOS022003; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@arch20m.dellroad.org) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gADGbuDB022002; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:37:56 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200211131637.gADGbuDB022002@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 can't allocate colors on 4.7-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <20021113065731.GB1988@zaptillion.net> To: Ken Wills Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:37:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > +++ Archie Cobbs [12/11/02 13:23 -0800]: > > I recently upgraded an IBM A20m laptop to 4.7-RELEASE and it appears > > that the new version of the X server is broken. > > > > The problem is that applications can no longer allocate colors... e.g.: > > See below, the default colors are installed as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, did you cut and > paste ;-) > > > Section "Files" > > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Changing the ColorDepth seemed to fix the problem. That line was auto-generated by XF86Config. It does seem wrong though, because the file is named "rgb.txt", not "rgb". But it seems to work now. So ... ? not sure what that means. Thanks, -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message