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Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry



I had the same warning when I used XF86_VGA16 server.  The problem
went away after I swiched to XF86_SVGA server.  This was my case. 
I am not sure it will apply to your case.

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David B. Teague wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> > bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
> > 
> > > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
> > 
> > Try "netscape -install".  
> 
> Doesn't work here.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't know about Bruce's friend's problem, but, mine is a completely
> vanilla install, unmodified, straight from Netscape, using the Debian
> install package. It is truly a _default_ install, it is indeed 8 bit,
> but I don't know how to change it to other than 8 bit.
> 
> Please ask for what ever configuration files you m ight need to help me
> and I'll send by private mail, rather than eat mailing list bandwidth.
> 
> --David
> 
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