Re: netscape problem (solved)
Hi Mike,
Yes, that was the problem. I was running on 24bit color. I changed
to 16bit.
Thanks.
-gnana
Quoting Mike <reznaeous@earthlink.net>:
> Gnanasekaran Thoppae wrote:
> > hi list,
> >
> > i installed potato on my new machine and apt-get installed
> > netscape 4.75 but the toolbars and icons are greyed out.
> > i could not see the colored icons. But the browser works fine.
> > I could see sites in full color. I have ATI Rage Pro card with
> > 32MB. What could be the problem?
> >
> > Is it something to do with colormap?
>
> You are almost certainly running X at 24 bit color. This is a known bug
> with Netscape. Change your color depth to either 32 bit or 16 bit, and the
> icons should come back to color.
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