Undefined color: "black" on Nvidia card

[Lonni J Friedman]

Google says:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2006-May/msg03307.html

On 6/18/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> After wrestling with the nvidia driver (see the thread entitled
> "Nvidia MX 4000 card locking up on FC5 as updated"), I now find I
> can't launch some programs. I get error messages like so:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> [ccurley at charlesc ~]$ emacs &
> [1] 4737
> [ccurley at charlesc ~]$ Undefined color: "black"
>
> [1]+  Exit 255                emacs
> [ccurley at charlesc ~]$ xmutt &
> [1] 4741
> [ccurley at charlesc ~]$ Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
> xterm: Cannot allocate color cyan
> xterm: Cannot allocate color black
> xterm: Cannot allocate color yellow3
> xterm: Cannot allocate color blue2
> xterm: Cannot allocate color yellow
> xterm: Cannot allocate color red3
> xterm: Cannot allocate color magenta
>
> [1]+  Done                    xmutt
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> I can launch the same apps sucessfully over an SSH login.
>
> I do not see anything that jumps out at me in the logs or config file.
>
> I don't think I've tried to launch a program in X on that machine
> since that thread, so this may be a continuation. Sigh.


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