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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!veritas!amdcad!angelo!dwork
  2. From: dwork@angelo.amd.com (Jeff Dwork)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
  4. Subject: Re: colormap "black" not found under X11
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug17.170237.10335@amd.com>
  6. Date: 17 Aug 92 17:02:37 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug8.111553.2833@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>
  8. Sender: usenet@amd.com (NetNews)
  9. Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
  10. Lines: 19
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: angelo
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  13. In article <1992Aug8.111553.2833@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au> u2116318@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au writes:
  14. >Our school has a lot of apollos workstation
  15. >but when I start X windows server
  16. >it always complain 
  17. >colormap "black" not found
  18. >any one know what's wrong with the program?
  19. >we are using X11.4 on old apollos(68k)machine
  20.  
  21. Do you have a colorful picture as your root window?
  22. We have seen this happen with pictures with many colors.
  23. Setting the root window to something simple fixes the problem.
  24.  
  25. Jeff
  26.  
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  28. Jeff Dwork            |  408-987-2362   |   jeff.dwork@amd.com
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