Try launching tinyX not from a console ( ie in rc scripts ) or
launching on another tty other than the current one. 

Make sense ?

For some reason if you launch tinyX from a console, it gets the
colormap all wrong. 

  -- Matthew Allum

on Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 03:17:43PM +0000, Carlos Dri wrote:
> I've RedHat 6.0 with the kernel updated (2.4.18) running in a x86 system. I 
> compiled X with kdrive, TinyX and framebuffer option, because I want to run 
> it in a diskless system (an old 486).
> 
> Build was ok, but when I open a drawing that I know it has 256 colors, I'm 
> only displaying some colors (red, blue, green,black and white.... or 
> something like that). I know the framebuffer is working ok with 256 colors 
> (tested it with nano-X), but when I run Xfbdev I get a reduced set of 
> colors.
> 
> This is my host.def file. I'm really stacked with this problem. Any hint on
> how to configure Xfree for building tinyX with framebuffer 640x480 and 256
> colors?????
> 
> TIA.
> 
> #define BuildServersOnly YES
> #define KDriveXServer YES
> #define TinyXServer YES
> #define XfbdevServer YES
> 
> 
> 
> 
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