On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Having just upgraded to RedHat-7.3 which uses XFree86-4.2.0, I have a > > question regarding colormaps. > > > > I have a colour depth of 8bpp (This is essential for the applications that > > I want to run, upping the colour depth is not an option) > > > > Under the previous version of X (4.0.3 in my case) I had no problems firing > > up my application or any others in 8 bit mode, now I am finding that > > regardless of the window manager I use, most colours have already been > > allocated. For example I have started both mwm (with a plain background and > > an Xterm) and KDE yet I still get the error > > "cannot allocate colormap entries" > > when starting a colour intensive application. > > I can see with xcmap that a whole bunch of colours have been grabbed and I > > would have expected this with KDE, but not mwm or twm. > > The RENDER extension grabbed the extra colours. > I guess you can turn this extension off in the config file.
How do you do that? I haven't noticed a way. Mark. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert