From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:12:36 -0600 From: Grant Grundler To: James Bottomley Cc: PARISC list Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] xfree86 4.2.1-9 build problem Message-ID: <20030814051236.GA3546@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> <1060815215.1987.2.camel@fuzzy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1060815215.1987.2.camel@fuzzy> 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, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:53:33PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > 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). yes. And I'm using fvwm2 which I thought was supposed to be a fairly (not totally) light weight window manager. I'll see if there are knobs to reduce the FVWM color consumption. > 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). yup - I was looking to find the code to and at least print a warning so I know that's the problem. I've spent < 1h hunting through the code to figure out where the colors for the text box was allocated. Haven't found it yet though.