From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 07:45:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA12593 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 07:45:51 -0700 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA12580 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 07:45:47 -0700 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA09325; Tue, 30 May 95 07:44:56 -0700 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Tue, 30 May 95 16:44 MSZ Message-Id: Date: Tue, 30 May 95 16:44 MSZ From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: rjbproc@Vir.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X-problems with fvwm Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.questions References: Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.questions you write: >I've compiled fvwm using current ports and it work fine except for the >colormaps. The errror messages are as follows: > >"unable to allocate color somecolor" >"can't allocate colormap entry for somecolor" What kind of X server are you using in what color depth? If it's the VGA 16 one, you may well be out of colors. >I suspect it's releated to libXpm. I have these lib files in 2 >places because I believe fvwm is looking for them in /usr/lib/X11. >I normally keep them in /usr/X11R6/lib. I've recompiled over and over >again and I can't get the colormaps right. Am I on the right track >or way off in wonder-land? I'd appreciate someone's help. Unless I've made yet another mistake, fvwm should look up everything under /usr/X11R6/lib. Personally, I keep a symbolic link from /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib/X11 for backwards compatibility tho. Michael -- Michael Elbel, PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)