rose@tci.bell-atl.com (Bob Rose) (11/18/89)
I just posted a question about X not seeing (or getting) my colormap info. I read in the O'Reilly Users Manual (Vol 3) that my problem is a corrupted rgb.dir file on /usr/lib/X11 That sounded good, so I copied a know good one from another machine, but I still get the same "cannot allocate colormap" error. Does the file need to be loaded into a database, like you have to do with fonts 'mkfontdir'? thanks, Bob
joel@pandora.pa.dec.com (Joel McCormack) (11/21/89)
I read in the O'Reilly Users Manual (Vol 3) that my problem is a corrupted rgb.dir file on /usr/lib/X11 Try copying over rgb.pag as well. Then try restarting your server. - Joel McCormack (decwrl!joel, joel@decwrl.dec.com)
lori@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Lori Cook) (12/13/89)
A couple of thoughts on the matter. a) If rgb.dir or rgb.pag is corrupted, you must 1) copy/create a new rgb.dir or rgb.pag 2) restart your server. b) Are you sure that you have enough resources on your machine to allocate a new colormap or color cell? We had one guy on site running xfish and couldn't under- stand why he kept getting 'cannot allocate color cell' everytime he tried to start a new process (He had one free color cell left in the colormap when the process wanted three new colors.) Lori A. Cook USMail: Corvallis Workstation Operation. Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis Information Systems 1000 NE Circle Blvd. Corvallis, OR 97330 ARPA: lori@hpcvlx.HP.COM UUCP: {cmcl2, harpo, hplabs, rice, tektronix}!hp-pcd!lori