Hello! I'm running a machine at work where the video memory is pretty much stretched to the limit: A 2Mb Matrox Mystique to drive a 1600x1200 display. I have to use 8bpp, of course.
I recently brought this machine from potato up to woody, and sometime ... it didn't seem to be directly associated with an upgrade, just restarting X ... my colormap became so sparse as to be almost unusable. The fvwm pager in the lower-right-hand corner cannot allocate its default background SlateBlue4, and appears black. I've changed everything to white-on-black ... I had been sharing the same 6 or 7 colors in all my apps, but now even that seems to overload the system. After my x session has been going for a little while, I can no longer see the directories when I do a color ls ... I have switched back and forth between X3 and X4 drivers, tried all the options I could find on the XFree86 web page to specify in my XF86Config (-4) file, and I've been reading all the man pages and looking at all the startup files; but the problem still eludes me. What happened? How can I fix it? Any help would be extremely appreciated! Forrest Cahoon not speaking for merrill corporation
