Michael, Thanks for the input. I would love to try your suggestion. Unfortunately I don't know how to change the color depth in netscape. I have tried the -install option. This leads to an interesting phenomenon. When the pointer in inside of netscape, netscape looks great, but the backdrop looks like something Jerry Gracie would like. When the pointer leaves netscape the background looks great, but netscape is screwed up. I think this means that I am changing color maps. BTW, I may have been wrong about the color depth I am using. It is likely that it is only 16 bpp. This may be why this is happening. If netscape is trying to run at 24 bpp it may not agree with my display settings. Steve Michael Lankton wrote:
Netscape has a problem with 24 bpp, so if you are using 24 bpp, try 16 bpp and see if that solves your problem. I run a 4 meg s3virge at 16 bpp and xv -root -quit background.gif & and have never experienced any problems.
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Hi,
I went out to www.wri.com/graphics, downloaded the collage.gif (the big one on the default page) to /temp and ran:
xv -root -quit /temp/collage.gif
Cool! I get an awsome backdrop. Then I start netscape and get:
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0" Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
Netscape looks like doo-doo. I have this same type of behavior on my sparc at work. I used to think that it was a limitation of the video hardware on the Sun. I have an 8MB Matrox here at home. I would not expect that I am running out of vRAM. This is possible I guess.
I did try to knock the colors back on the gif using xv and saving the file with the Reduced Color option. This seemed to fix the netscape color problem.
Can anybody clue me in on what is going on here? Can I bump up my color space. Note: I do have my resolution and color deapth maxed out on my display.
Steve
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