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Re: Allocating color problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Sun Nov 3 11:45:31 1996
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 11:42:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: Mike Wangsmo <wanger@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.961103091628.1099B-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
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On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Mike Wangsmo wrote:
> From: Mike Wangsmo <wanger@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
> 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.
I am using Accelerated-X, v.1.2, and the Matrox MGA with 4 MB.
Here is the setting from Xaccel.ini
[SCREEN]
Board = "matrox/mga-mil4.xqa";
Monitor = "mfreq/mfreq76.vda";
Depth = 24;
Desktop = 1152x900;
EnergyStar = YES;
[RESOLUTIONS]
1152x900,
1024x768,
800x600,
640x480;
Isn't the Depth set for 24 bit video?
Any further ideas?
TIA,
-sen
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