R Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RCR> I regularly get an error message in my xterm that says that an RCR> application can't allocate the color map if, say, Netscape is RCR> already running. Also xcolorsel won't run because it says that RCR> there are only 233 colors available where there should be 12000 RCR> or some other large number.
It sounds like you're running an 8-bit-depth X server, which only has 256 colors. (I don't recognize ~12,000 as a "standard" number of colors at all.) You can attempt to limit yourself to "polite" X applications, Netscape not being one here; try to force X applications that can use private colormaps to do so (netscape -install, for example); or try to use a different color depth (the specs you gave can support 16bpp at 1024x768; try 'startx -- -bpp 16' or adding DefaultColorDepth 16 in the "Screen" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config). RCR> Also how do I change resolution? I believe it can be done on the RCR> fly. Ctrl+Alt+KP+ and Ctrl+Alt+KP-. The default resolution is the first one listed on the Modes line for a given color depth, again in the "Screen" section of XF86Config. -- _____________________________ / \ "Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box." | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_____________________________/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
