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Posted: Dec. 12 2006,15:35 QUOTE
I am running DSL on a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/75CX laptop. It is a 486DX with 24 megs of RAM and a 640x480 color LCD.

DSL boots up fine, and X even runs, but I never get a "real backgrond" I am just stuck with the X windows "dogbone" or "crosshatch" or whatever you call it.

I found that when the ./.background program runs it does not work. Instead xsri gives this error:

Gdk-WARNING **: Visual types-static color depth=4, image bpp=4, lsb first is not supported by GdkRGB. Please submit a bug report with the above values to bugzilla.gnome.org

Any ideas why xsri is spitting out this error?

Thank you.
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Posted: Dec. 12 2006,15:53 QUOTE
do solid colors work? (ie minimal theme)

What's your video settings?  Maybe you need at least a 8 bit color depth
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Posted: Dec. 12 2006,16:46 QUOTE
Any theme seems to work, although some look horrible. Programs work. It all works, I just have that horrible background that makes the little system stats program hard to see.

I have run xsetup.sh several times and chosen all sorts of combinations. It actually seems to have no affect on how xwindows runs though. I'm not really sure what color depth I am running at. Since changing the screen resolution in xsetup has no affect, I tend to think that changing the color depth has no affect either.

How do I force X into a particular color depth? How do I know what it is running at?

EDIT: Sorry, it does NOT all work. I do not get the icons on the desktop either.
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Posted: Dec. 12 2006,17:00 QUOTE
ah yea, I think you probably did not restart X after.
On-the-fly video setting switching isn't in DSL by default.

(to restart, ie exit fluxbox, then at the tty run `startx`)
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Posted: Dec. 12 2006,17:20 QUOTE
Uh, right, obviously. I shut down Xwindows I run xsetup.sh. Then I startx again, but it always comes up with the same resolution (and I assume color depth) each time.
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