Hi Ron,
First thing you might want to try is close nescape/gnome etc and start
with a very basic X session. If that still fails, it might depend on
your X server setup, version, and graphic card.
First I was using 16 depth with XFree_SVGA on a neomagic card and that
worked fine.
When I upgraded to rh7.1, the X server changed and I had the blink
problem, so I went back to the old SVGA.
I think if you Xstart in 8bit depth mode, things are more likely to
work, but that's quite a compromise. There's a hack to have two Xservers
running simultaneously and toggling between the two with ctrl+alt+F6/7 -
I haven't too much impressed by that.
cheers,
Mattieu
PS: edd/dm builds and runs on linux with openmotif (that won't really
help you! it's just for information if you plan to run things on Linux).
"Chestnut, Ronald P." wrote:
>
> We're just starting to look at Linux. One of the first things we've done is just set DISPLAY to the linux box and try the various tools from Solaris.
>
> StripTool, DM2K, GDCT work fine.
>
> Both DM and EDD fail to start, complaining that they can't allocate blinking colors. I haven't seen this before, even on other systems which don't display blinking colors.
>
> Is there some magic incantation involved here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> /Ron Chestnut
>
> "If you're one of those people who puts solar panels on your house or drives a battery powered car, you might as well vote for Gore"
> -- Dick Cheney Oct. 3, 2000
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