On Friday 29 June 2001 16:29, Mario da Costa wrote:
> > When i load some apps on RH6.1, such as emacs and xephem, i get these
> > messages such as:
> > Warning: cannot allocate colormap entry for "Orchid"... etc.
> > What do i do ?? Some apps like xephem cannot be used with this problem.
> what are your video mode settings ? try changing it to 16 bit colour.
> This may help. Listers some back up please ??
That's right. Switch to a higher color depth if possible. For me a 16 bit
depth works well. You'll normally see this error because you're running in
with a depth of 8 bits. What happens is this: The number of bits determines
how many colors the video card can display simultaneously. So as each app
loads up, it needs some of predefined colors for itself that get reserverd in
the 'color map' If there are many apps open or if an app requests more than
255 colors, it won't be able to run....
HTH,
-Faisal
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