I got a bounce filter message and wanted to see if I'm still on the list. NEVADA BELL has had yet another major email meltdown - SHEESH!! Thank you for your cooperation! Dennis ... ------------------> ----- Original Message ----- From: Darren Osadchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Problems w/Gimp > >>I'm having some odd colour problems with Gimp (and Wordperfect, it > >>turns out). When I start Gimp, I get a message which reads, "Unable > >>to allocate sufficient colormap entries. Try exiting other color > >>intensive applications." The Gimp window then appears in purple > >>(which it shouldn't be). Clicking on it will make it turn into the > >>proper grey, but everything else on the screen goes wacky. As soon as > >>I move the mouse, everything reverts to its normal (screwed up) > >>status. When I start WP, I get the message "Cannot allocate colormap > >>entry for default background" and the WP document window is in black > >>and white. Any explanations as to what's causing this would be most > >>welcome. > > > >You are running X in 8 bit mode. Gimp, like most graphics > >applications, requires a lot of colors, and when run on an 8 bpp > >display, attempts to allocate a "color cube" that will take up most of > >the 256-entry colormap. If you're running a WM like Enlightenment, > >odds are there won't be that many free colors available. > > Running X in 16 bit fixes the problem (thanks to everybody who pointed this > out). > > My next question is, why is this the default choice for X? My video card > can definitely support higher colour depths, and those settings are in > XF86Config, so how do I make X start in a higher colour depth by default, > without having to type "startx -- -bpp 16" every time? > > >What version of Gimp do you have? The behavior you're reporting > >sounds like 0.54 -- I'd hope that nobody is distributing such an > >ancient version.... 1.1 has GtkRGB support and should cope even with > >very restricted colormaps, thanks to the magic of Raph... :) > > Offhand, I can't remember. It's the version that's distributed with Red Hat > 5.2. > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pangea.ca/~osadchuk/ > > "If nations can behave like individuals, he was an individual who behaved > like a nation: enduring decades of edgy submissiveness, then bursting > into revolt, eager for fresh rhetoric and a renewed image of himself." > > ************ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
