Greg Brubaker wrote: > We are running into the infamous color table problem when using our software. > I am trying to get a handle on how to control the color table and how to > make our software smart as to if the color table is full, go into a color > default mode of some sort. I did notice that between our different machines > and Solaris OSs, there is also a difference on the available color tables. > Is this a function of the video card and/or version of Solaris. I am new to > this kind of stuff and so explain it in layman's terms. > The answer depends on the graphics card and the default visual. Assuming the default visual is set to 8 bit and the graphics card has only one hardware colormap, increased tendency to has been previously traced to two causes:
1. Switch of the desktop from CDE to GNOME. More colors are used for the GNOME desktop. You need to let us know which desktop is being used. 2. Update Manager desktop icon. With Solaris 10 Update 4 there is a notable increase in the number of colormap cells used by the desktop compared to Update 2 or 3. Removing the icon from the desktop freed up a lot more colormap cells for applications.
