From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 26 07:43:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04982 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from the.oneinsane.net (root@link2.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04940 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane@oneinsane.net) Received: from killa.oneinsane.net (killa.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.242]) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980126073653.00a7a7f0@the.oneinsane.net> X-Sender: insane@the.oneinsane.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:36:53 -0800 To: David From: Ron Rosson Subject: Re: Color Map Question Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk David, If you have the memory to run 16bpp then try starting X with something like this. startx - -bpp 16 Hopes this helps Ron At 08:41 PM 1/25/98 -0600, David wrote: > >Can someone offer some help please. After installing 2.2.5-Release from >a CD. Alot of the applicatiions start uo (under X) with error's of this >type: > >Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background. > >Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0" (amoung others) > >It reallt throws off the colors in alot of programs. Last install on >another box didn't have this problem. > >Idea's ? > > >Thanks > >David > >dallas.tex@airmail.net >dvo264@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... rlr@n2.net rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void --------------------------------------------------------