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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:37:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Ken Wills <kenwills@tds.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 can't allocate colors on 4.7-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <200211131637.gADGbuDB022002@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021113065731.GB1988@zaptillion.net>

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> +++ Archie Cobbs [12/11/02 13:23 -0800]:
> > I recently upgraded an IBM A20m laptop to 4.7-RELEASE and it appears
> > that the new version of the X server is broken.
> > 
> > The problem is that applications can no longer allocate colors... e.g.:
> 
> See below, the default colors are installed as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, did you cut and
> paste ;-)
> 
> > Section "Files"
> > 	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> 		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Changing the ColorDepth seemed to fix the problem. That line was
auto-generated by XF86Config. It does seem wrong though, because
the file is named "rgb.txt", not "rgb". But it seems to work now.
So ... ? not sure what that means.

Thanks,
-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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