[parisc-linux] xfree86 4.2.1-9 build problem

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-08-13 at 23:53, James Bottomley wrote:
> A lot of modern applications (particularly of the kde or gnome variety)
> pay absolutely no attention to potential colour map limitations and can
> blithely request more colours than you have available (and sometimes not
> even check for failure returns).

Set the display to a fixed colour mapping is the simplest approach.
XFree 4.x is quite happy to let you set different visuals and get
things like an 8bit fixed palette