[ale] Re: matrox millennium II video card problem

[hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu (hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu)]

> I have a Matrox Millennium II video card and am currently running Red Hat
> 6.0, with Gnome and Enlightenment window manager.   My video card has 4
> Meg of RAM and I am running the window manager at 1280x1024.   The problem
> that I am having is that I run out of colormaps with only a couple of
> windows open.

You appear to be running with the automatically generated XF86Config.  That
defaults to 8 bit depth.  I think you should be able to get 16 bits, which
would be a big improvement.

Try running X like this:
  startx -- -bpp 16
If that works then add 
   DefaultColorDepth 16
To the appropriate "Screen" section of the config file.

I don't think you can run in 24 bit mode with only 4 MB of VRAM.

--Michael