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Netscape problems with Red Hat Linux 5.2

Netscape problems with Red Hat Linux 5.2

Post by David Blane » Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:00:00



I've recently installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 and have set up X as my GUI.
Everything looked fine until I eventually got PPP working and started using
Netscape. I'm not sure whether it's the resolution or the colour depth but
the graphics and fonts are not very good quality. Netscape also gives me the
following error: "Warning:  Cannot allocate colormap entry for default
background". I have read other newsgroup entries that suggest running X as
follows:     startx --bpp 24    or     startx -install     . I've tried both
and neither of these suggestions have made any difference. I have a PII 350
with 64Mb ram and an Intel 740i AGP graphics card with 8Mb ram. If anyone
has any suggestions please let me know. My XF86Config file looks like this:

        Section "Monitor"
                Identifier            "My Monitor"
                VendorName    "Unknown"
                ModelName      "Unknown"
                HorizSync           31.5 - 64.3
                VertRefresh        40-150
.
.
        Section "Device"
                Identifier            "Intel 740 (generic)"
                VendorName    "Unknown"
                BoardName      "Unknown"

.
.
        Section "Screen"
                Driver                  "svga"
                Device                "Intel 740 (generic)"
                Monitor                "My Monitor"
                Subsection            "Display"
                        Depth                    8
                        Modes                   "1280x1024" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
                        Virtual                    800 600
                        Viewport                0 0
                EndSubsection
                SubSection            "Display"
                        Depth                    16
                        Modes                    "1280x1024" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
                        Virtual                    800 600
                        Viewport                0 0
                EndSubsection
                Subsection            "Display"
                        Depth                    24
                        Modes                   "1280x1024" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
                        Virtual                    800 600
                        Viewport                0 0
                EndSubsection
                Subsection            "Display"
                        Depth                    32
                        Modes                   "1280x1024" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
                        Virtual                    800 600
                         Viewport               0 0
                EndSubsection
.
.
        Section        "Screen"
                Driver                    "accel1"
                Device                   "Intel 740 (generic)"
                Monitor                   "My Monitor"

                        (same subsections as for "svga")

Thanks in Advance,
David Blaney.

 
 
 
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Netscape problems with Red Hat Linux 5.2

Post by Josh Mille » Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:00:00


I added a line to your XF86Config bellow... add it to yours and (if the mod lines are right and all)
you should get a higher color depth. This is the only way that worked for me, btw.

best of luck!

Oh... if that doesn't work, you may have to change some mod lines or something... it'd be trouble
shooting time :-)

Josh I.


> I've recently installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 and have set up X as my GUI.
> Everything looked fine until I eventually got PPP working and started using
> Netscape. I'm not sure whether it's the resolution or the colour depth but
> the graphics and fonts are not very good quality. Netscape also gives me the
> following error: "Warning:  Cannot allocate colormap entry for default
> background". I have read other newsgroup entries that suggest running X as
> follows:     startx --bpp 24    or     startx -install     . I've tried both
> and neither of these suggestions have made any difference. I have a PII 350
> with 64Mb ram and an Intel 740i AGP graphics card with 8Mb ram. If anyone
> has any suggestions please let me know. My XF86Config file looks like this:

>         Section "Monitor"
>                 Identifier            "My Monitor"
>                 VendorName    "Unknown"
>                 ModelName      "Unknown"
>                 HorizSync           31.5 - 64.3
>                 VertRefresh        40-150
> .
> .
>         Section "Device"
>                 Identifier            "Intel 740 (generic)"
>                 VendorName    "Unknown"
>                 BoardName      "Unknown"

> .
> .
>         Section "Screen"
>                 Driver                  "svga"
>                 Device                "Intel 740 (generic)"
>                 Monitor                "My Monitor"

#you can put there any color depth you want
#to be default... 8,16,24(not supported by
#many card drivers from my experiance),32

                  DefaultColorDepth 16

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Quote:>                 Subsection            "Display"
>                         Depth                    8
>                         Modes                   "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
>                         Virtual                    800 600
>                         Viewport                0 0
>                 EndSubsection
>                 SubSection            "Display"
>                         Depth                    16
>                         Modes                    "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
>                         Virtual                    800 600
>                         Viewport                0 0
>                 EndSubsection
>                 Subsection            "Display"
>                         Depth                    24
>                         Modes                   "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
>                         Virtual                    800 600
>                         Viewport                0 0
>                 EndSubsection
>                 Subsection            "Display"
>                         Depth                    32
>                         Modes                   "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
>                         Virtual                    800 600
>                          Viewport               0 0
>                 EndSubsection
> .
> .
>         Section        "Screen"
>                 Driver                    "accel1"
>                 Device                   "Intel 740 (generic)"
>                 Monitor                   "My Monitor"

>                         (same subsections as for "svga")

> Thanks in Advance,
> David Blaney.


 
 
 
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Netscape problems with Red Hat Linux 5.2

Post by James Pyn » Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:00:00


I've got the same problem!  Pages viewed with Netscape look somewhat
"grainy"...the colors are off and fonts are hard to read.  I have a Diamond Fire
GL 1000 Pro, 8MB PCI card and I'm running the lastest XFree86 server at 1024x768
32bpp.  I'd given up on the problem for the time being as school takes up much
of my free time but I'd be interested to hear any suggestions on where to look.

> I've recently installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 and have set up X as my GUI.
> Everything looked fine until I eventually got PPP working and started using
> Netscape. I'm not sure whether it's the resolution or the colour depth but
> the graphics and fonts are not very good quality. Netscape also gives me the
> following error: "Warning:  Cannot allocate colormap entry for default
> background".<snip>

 
 
 
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