Nancy Davis <nedavis_at_cs.utah.edu> writes:
> > Do you see any color on the screen at all?
> Yes.
>
> > What does the command "xdpyinfo" print?
>
> > default number of colormap cells: 256
Ok, this part indicates that you are running with an 8 bit colormap.
This restricts the number of colors you can display at once to 256.
If you expect that you should have more colors available, then you
want to look at the way you have XFree configured. Try to get it to
set the color depth to 16, 24, or 32 instead of 8.
If you expect to only have 8 bit color, you have to try to deal with
your colormap. The first rule is to always start Netscape with a
private colormap, like this:
netscape -install
there are a lot of other rules. I suspect that you don't want 8 bit
color.
> > I'm not familiar with the NETBSD setup. If you are using "startx",
> > you might try:
> >
> > startx 2>&1>/tmp/errors.out
>
> I tried that, but there were no errors about being able to
> display or run any particular resolution....
I was wondering if we would see any messages about being unable to
allocate a color.
Like I said, I'm not familiar with NETBSD, but if you can find where
it starts fvwm (.xinitrc?), you can do the same trick with fvwm:
fvwm2 2>&1 >/tmp/fvwm.out
> > Always cc the fvwm list.
> M'kay. I was concerned about the filesize ;-)
Yes, well you want to stay on the list, to get expert help from the
others that also read the list, and to have them spot my mistakes.
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Received on Tue Jan 30 2001 - 14:39:08 GMT