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Re: Colormaps in Linux



On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:33:19AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote:
> The problem I am trying to fix is that fonts and
> images in Netscape have never been properly displayed
> in Netscape. Instead of getting fonts, toolbars,
> scrollbars and images displayed as the application
> programmers and web designers intended, I get basic

Does the unix version of netscape ever look good?

> Courier fonts, two dimensional images (I especially

Every image on a screen is two dimensional :)

> notice this with tool bars in netscape and within web
> pages) and 16-bit colors instead.

Try running X in 32-bit mode.  If your XF86Config file is set up
right, startx -- -bpp 32 should work.  You can also set 32 bit as the
default somewhere in there.  See manpage for XF86Config.

> 
>  I believe this probably has something to do with the
> way I have set up my color map in X as I
> intermittently get the following error: "Unable to
> allocate default colormap". 
> 
> Does anybody know what I need to do to fix this?
> 
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