Black seems to be an undefined colour

wwp subscript at free.fr
Wed May 17 14:09:35 UTC 2006


Hello Darius,


On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:24:52 +0100 Darius Hardy <darius at sephs.no-ip.info> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:12 +0200, wwp wrote:
> > Hello Darius,
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:05:30 +0100 Darius Hardy <darius at sephs.no-ip.info>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, I've just done a clean install of Core 5 (and yum update as of this
> > > morning) and emacs is refusing to start with the error 'Undefined color:
> > > "black"'. Attempting to run xterm and xclock both give similar messages
> > > about black but they do run.
> > > I've got Core 3 on another PC, and up until the other day have had Core
> > > 4 on this without problems. The rgb.txt file is definitely there and
> > > contains black. Any suggestions on what to look for?
> > 
> > FYI `xclock -bg black` and `xterm -bg black` work as expected here (FC5),
> > I know, it doesn't help that much.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> I've managed to track it down. For some reason the path to rgb.txt was
> set to the wrong directory in xorg.conf, everything is working now.
> Thanks for your time.

Well, here /etc/X11/xorg.conf (rewritten by fglrx_config, IIRC) contains no
reference to any rgb occurrence. Glad that you've found (and solved) the
problem!


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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