Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:

> A Debian 1.3 pre-release user at Pixar gets this complaint when running
> Netscape. I think he gets the same complaint when running remote stuff
> with Debian doing the display. This is a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, I think.
> 
> > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0"
> > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background

Try "netscape -install".  Your friend probably just has a background
patern that's eating up some of the colors on what I would guess is an
8-bit display.  Netscape is a real color hog (among other things), so
running it with -install will let it install its own colormap which
will be used whenever netscape has the focus.

-- 
Rob


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .