> Several contributors to the list made helpful suggestions which included
> suggesting as to how I could be sure that the control panel files were
> installed. They are present and are in:  /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel/
> The man page for control panel says that in order to activate Control
> Panel I should issue the command *control-panel* in an Xterm window (as
> root). I did this and get the following response:
> 
> **ERROR**: unable to find a usable depth

I think this refers to the colour depth of your X server. More than
likely yours maybe 8 bpp, unfortunately I can't remember how to get that
information right now. I think I had the same error when I first used
Linux, and it means that control-panel does not have enough colours
available to display itself properly.

> 
> Any suggestions as to what this means and what to do from here. I repeat
> I'm a complete newbie with Linux
> and self taught as far as computer skills are concerned so please be
> very specific in answering. Thanks in advance.
> Stan Fisher

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