Michael Kler wrote: > I am running Solaris 10 on an Sun/Ultra 45. We are in the process of > upgrading our display card from an XVR-100 to an XVR-2500. When we use the > XVR-100, the default colormap uses 256 cells with 8 bit depth. When we use > the XVR-2500, the default colormap uses 255 cells also with 8 bit depth. In > both cases we are using PseudoColor. The program we are using calls > XAllocColorCells which returns correctly on the XVR-100, but not on the > XVR-2500. Is there a way to change the default colormap to use all 256 > cells? I know next to nothing about X and have inherited this code which has > worked fine in HP-UX and Solaris until now. > > 255 cells usually means someone has made the transparent overlay the default visual. Try running:
fbconfig -dev kfb0 -defoverlay false and restarting the desktop.