From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 16:02:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA14764 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tec.oz.cc.utah.edu (root@tec.oz.cc.utah.edu [155.99.16.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA14758 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cor.oz.cc.utah.edu (root@cor.oz.cc.utah.edu [155.99.2.2]) by tec.oz.cc.utah.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id RAA07476 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:02:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from probono.law.utah.edu (probono.law.utah.edu [128.110.121.3]) by cor.oz.cc.utah.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id RAA15855 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:02:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from EDU-UTAH-LAW-PROBONO/MERCURYP by probono.law.utah.edu (Mercury 1.13); Mon, 15 Apr 96 17:03:20 MDT Received: from MERCURYP by EDU-UTAH-LAW-PROBONO (Mercury 1.13); Mon, 15 Apr 96 17:03:09 MDT From: "ALLAN DAVID P." To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:03:04 MST Subject: colormaps & color planes in X-windows Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <8FA6A9028F@probono.law.utah.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Several of my X-applications (netscape, can't create colormap then runs; xgalaga, can't allocate 7 planes, can't create colormap, dies) complain that they cannot allocate any or enough color planes or create colormaps, sometimes when first run, in which case they usually die, or during running, in which case they usually continue running. My system is 8Meg Ram/170Mb IDE disk w/20Mb set aside for swap space running the VGA 16 color X server. I suspect the 16 color server is the problem, but I can't find any documentation that will tell me for sure, or better yet, how to make my apps run. If anyone has any suggestions, or can confirm that I need to get a better video card and run the SVGA server, please let me know. Thanks, Dave Allan