[SATLUG] Re: Wild colors in X applications

[Travis H.]

Yes, you are running with a reduced colormap and the various
applications giving you problems are trying to help by using a
seperate, private colormap - so that they look normal when the focus
is on them.

Check your color depth settings.  You want 24-bit color.

BTW, you can get nice 128MB nVidia AGP cards for $50 from Ebay (or
maybe the seller, imagestore.us).

> > In order to get the higher resolutions I have to manually edit the
> > xorg.conf file. I am wondering why this is, although perhaps it's

Because you don't have enough video RAM to do 24-bit colors in these
resolutions, probably.  Have you read the log file when you start up
X?  It should be in /var/log/X or something like that.
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