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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: NIU >Keywords: 200307301507.h6UF74Ld028229 McIDAS MCGUI Gilbert, >I have installed a new kernel and video card driver and I still can't get >this to work. Again, the same error happens: > >mcidas >crap >Error in startup script: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for >"green4" >Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "blue4" >Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "magenta4" >Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "cyan4" >Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "red4" >Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "yellow4" > while executing >"close $fhandle" > (procedure "startMcidas" line 34) > invoked from within >"startMcidas $optn" > ("0" arm line 2) > invoked from within >"switch $nargs { > 0 { > startMcidas $optn} > 1 { > if { !([string match "config*" $optn] || > [string ma..." > (file "/home/mcidas/bin/mcidas" line 659) This shows that the MCGUI can not get the colors it needs and so it won't start. >"mcidas config" gives me the same errors no matter how I try to start >McIDAS. I don't know what program is taking up these colors, and I don't >know how to find out which one is. It must be Gnome. >I mean...it's not using anything my >other machines aren't using. I'm confused. Since you are not running anything else, it must be Gnome or something in the desktop. Try reconfiguring the window manager to use less/different colors. For how that is done, you know as much or more about RH 9 than I do. Tom >From address@hidden Wed Jul 30 11:38:23 2003 re: It must be Gnome. It must be...a bad driver and bad Redhat for not recognizing it. I'm going to see if I can let them know about this. By increasing the colors to millions instead of just 64, the resolution won't go any higher than 640x480...but then McIDAS works just fine! > Since you are not running anything else, it must be Gnome or something > in the desktop. Try reconfiguring the window manager to use less/different > colors. For how that is done, you know as much or more about RH 9 than > I do. Yep. And that's what I get for questioning the programming skills of Tom Yoksas. I'll go crawl into a hole now. ;-) Thanks again for helping me to narrow this down! ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: address@hidden *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************