From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 18 10:40:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17200 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17189 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 102Jb1-0006AE-00; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:40:22 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id SAA01028; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:39:38 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09975; Mon, 18 Jan 99 18:39:36 GMT Message-Id: <36A37FCD.39D6CAE9@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:39:09 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "N. R.R." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: color sharing in X References: <19990118165637.2580.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "N. R.R." wrote: > > Hello, > > If this is not the right place for this question, please let me know. > > I noticed in Netscape (every once in a while) and EVERY time I run > xfmail 1.1, they have trouble sharing the colors. > > here are the messages: > Netscape: > > Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background. > > xfmail 1.1: > > #xfmail & > xfmail v1.1 > (C)..... > Compiled ..... > Fialed to share colors using private colormap > > Is there something I need to specify in my X startup? > Are you running at 256 colours (8bpp)?, can your graphics card support greater colour depth?. If so try starting X with ``startx -- -bpp 16'' (or 24, or 32). > Thanks again. > > Neill > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. My homepage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com Radan Computational Ltd | http://www.radan.com Bath, England. CAD/CAM solutions | FreeBSD - The Power To Serve for the Sheetmetal Work industry.| http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message