On Thursday 17 January 2002 02:35 pm, you wrote:
> My X server works great.
>
> But the Oracle 9iAS installer that I need to run uses an old Motif server
> that only supports 256 colors or less. Oracle says I need to change the X
> server so it uses 256 colors or less, and to change the color map to
> Pseudocolor.
>
> I tried starting X with the — -depth 8 parameter thinking maybe that would
> default to 256 colors, but I get a "No display subsection in Screen section
> 'Screen 0' for depth/fbbpp 8/8," then "No Screen found" error.
>
> I also tinkered with the XF86Config file by adding Depth 8 and Visual
> "PseudoColor" to the Display Subsection, but had no apparent effect, the X
> server invoked with startx took all the same parameters as before.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed? Am I barking up the wrong tree?  Below
> is the (I think) relevant section. Thanks much,
>
> John
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier  "Screen 1"
>     Device      "ATI Mach64"
>     Monitor     "JLD Dell"
>     DefaultDepth 1
>
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       8
>         Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort    0 0
>         Visual      "PseudoColor"
>     EndSubsection

DefaultDepth 1 ??  Should be 8 to match the Display section you show.
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