X11 colors on Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> I just installed Yellow Dog 5.0.2 on a 450MHz G4 tower, and am
>  just getting my feet wet with Yellow Dog.  Given that I'm now
>  running a Linux/Unix Special Interest Group at the local Apple
>  users group, I thought I should have some hands-on experience
>  with Linux on Apple.
>
>  The first thing I noticed is that X11 is complaining about
>  missing colors, minor ones like black. which makes for
>  ``interesting'' xterms when I get black on black.

Where are you seeing this error, and what is the actual error?

>
>  My first thought was that the rgb.txt file was missing, but it's
>  there in /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt, the same place as on CentOS 5
>  (I'm relatively new to Red Hat based systems coming from a
>  Caldera and SuSE Linux background so things aren't always where I
>  expect them to be).

Check the X log for starters.  Also, make sure that your X
configuration is sane, and is using the correct X driver.


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