On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Hou, Chia-Shan (NINDS) wrote: > Hi, > I am a stranger to X windows. However, I need to run a software on > Linux. The software needs 8bit color but the system default is 16. Is > there any way I can configure my X windows so that it can support this > software with 8bit color. There is the error message I got. > > Color depth = 16 but only depth =8 is allowed. > Can't get reserved color and no shared colorMap exist. > > > Does it mean that a shared colorMap can solve the problem? Any > suggestion? startx -- -depth 8 will set the server to run at 8bpp However are you sure that you've interpreted the error message correctly? It sounds more like the application client is requesting 16bpp from an X server running at 8bpp. Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
