Re: Color map in X
R Chris Ross <chris@birch.seitz.com> 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.
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