From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hancock.sc.steeleye.com (nat9.steeleye.com [65.114.3.137]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D502482D for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:53:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [172.17.6.40] (midgard.sc.steeleye.com [172.17.6.40]) by hancock.sc.steeleye.com (8.11.6/linuxconf) with ESMTP id h7DMrXI13417; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:53:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] xfree86 4.2.1-9 build problem From: James Bottomley To: Grant Grundler Cc: PARISC list In-Reply-To: <20030813213204.GA26014@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030811043457.GA5653@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030813175340.GF18794@dsl2.external.hp.com> <1060805514.2011.1.camel@fuzzy> <20030813213204.GA26014@dsl2.external.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: 13 Aug 2003 17:53:33 -0500 Message-Id: <1060815215.1987.2.camel@fuzzy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:32, Grant Grundler wrote: > if I can just figure out what's botching the colors for xchat2 now... Is this with one of the Visualize cards? They only do 8bpp at all resolutions, so if you run a colourful window manager, you run out pretty quickly. Even using the default fvwm, I had to run xpdf with a private colourmap (-cmap option) to get my slides to show up as anything like reasonable). A lot of modern applications (particularly of the kde or gnome variety) pay absolutely no attention to potential colour map limitations and can blithely request more colours than you have available (and sometimes not even check for failure returns). James