On Tuesday 16 October 2001 02:23 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2001 10:00, Shawn P. Garbett wrote: > > On Monday 15 October 2001 03:12 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > > > there is a but in this package. take a look at had the same problem > > > last evening. take a look at > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg00004.html > > > from 6 Oct, 01. > > > > This worked. I'm up and running now (almost!). One last bit of weirdness. > > The color map is fried somehow. When I run Eterm I get: > > > > Eterm: Warning: Unable to resolve "white" as a color name. This should > > never fail. Please repair/restore your RGB database. > > > > I found on the web a program "rgb" that is supposed to create the rgb.dir > > file and it's not present on my system and I can't find it in any distro. > > > > There is an rgb.txt file in /etc/X11. > > I just did a quick check of my system and have at least four permutations > of this file: identical copies in /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; another > installed by StarOffice and yet another installed by latex2html. the ones > in /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 are installed by xfree86-common per the > debian package search page. > > perhaps reinstall xfree86-common?
Tried that. Does fix it. Poked at it till I found the answer. Duh! The RGB path had not been written as part of the install. Fixed that in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and it works find. -- Public Key available from http://www.garbett.org/public-key
