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Re: Allocating color problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Wangsmo)
Sun Nov 3 11:19:50 1996
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:17:55 -0700 (MST)
From: Mike Wangsmo <wanger@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
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On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
> Running X, I frequently get the following message.
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
>
> And, yes, some colors don't show up.
> If I close a few windows then things work OK.
>
> How can this be fixed by some hardware/software combination?
>
Change your video card setings to 24bit video, of course that assumes
that you have a monitor other than SVGA that can handle higher than 256
colors.
Regards,
Mike
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