On Wed, 22 May 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> How do you do that? I haven't noticed a way.
Sorry, I forgot that it was a built in extension, not a module, so
SubSection "xxxxxx"
Option "omit yyyyy"
EndSubSection
doesn't work :-(
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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