On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:08:35PM -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > when using the xfree86 3.3.X series i had no trouble with color allocation > > and could easily display xpms in the root window. since upgrading to 4.2.X i am > > unable to set a root window image and get many messages about X being unable > > to allocate colors. > > You are running in depth 8? This is probably the render extension
yes > hogging the colormap. There is no solution for that other than hacking > the source code to stop it from doing that. The problem will be greatly > reduced in 4.3, however. is this the DRI extension? is it possible to compile without it? the vga card i have is unaccelerated (trident card with 8900C).. i was under the impression that DRI affected accelerated cards? thanks, fractoid _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
