dman saw fit to inform me that: >On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0500, DvB wrote: >| I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv >| driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. >| >| After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided to >| uninstall all X-related packages and start over. This worked fine except >| that now colors are screwed up when I run mozilla or >| netscape. Basically, blues are rendered as aqua/green and netscape, at >| one point, complained about not being able to "allocate pixmap for >| default background." Up until now mozilla/netscape are the only apps >| that have given me trouble. >| >| Is there a package I'm still missing? Or maybe my XF86Config-4 file's >| missing something? Any ideas? > >What color depth is your display running at? Netscape is a color hog >and if you don't have enough colors in your display, then it gets a >"private" colormap. It uses the same indices as other programs, but >for it it refers to different colors. That's when you get the funky >looking color dance when you switch focus between netscape and other >stuff. I've seen this quite a bit on the Solaris systems at school, >which I think are running at 8 bit color. Afterstep is another color >hog. Just try running afterstep, netscape and xfig at the same time >:-).
Change your color depth in XF86Config-4 file to 16 instead of 8. Everything will work fine. Warm Regards -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIA Powered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucious ----------------------------------------------------------------------------