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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Min Huang (tunny)" <hmin@public.cq.sc.cn>
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Subject: Re: color?
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:

> Hi,sir,
> 
> % ico -faces -colors red blue -sleep 1
> ico: can't allocate enough color planes
> 
> What's the matter?

This means that some program that uses a lot of color (Netscape et. al.)
is using up all the colors of your display.  Either:

1.  Exit color-hogging programs.
2.  Increase the number of colors your display can show, at the possible
expense of reduced desktop 

#2 requires some knowledge of your video hardware and of /etc/XF86Config.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major