On Wed, 22 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having just upgraded to RedHat-7.3 which uses XFree86-4.2.0, I have a > question regarding colormaps. > > I have a colour depth of 8bpp (This is essential for the applications that > I want to run, upping the colour depth is not an option) > > Under the previous version of X (4.0.3 in my case) I had no problems firing > up my application or any others in 8 bit mode, now I am finding that > regardless of the window manager I use, most colours have already been > allocated. For example I have started both mwm (with a plain background and > an Xterm) and KDE yet I still get the error > "cannot allocate colormap entries" > when starting a colour intensive application. > I can see with xcmap that a whole bunch of colours have been grabbed and I > would have expected this with KDE, but not mwm or twm.
The RENDER extension grabbed the extra colours. I guess you can turn this extension off in the config file. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
