XFree86 colormap problem

[Jeff Goeke-Smith]

My best guess would be that X is running in 256 color mode and therefor using
color maps.  Try running the X server in 16bit mode or higher.

Something like

startx -- -bpp 16 

might do the trick.

--Jeff

Ed said:

I'm well on my way to being a happy camper today... just got sound
working on the laptop under FreeBSD! =)  I have a problem with XMMS
though... it wants to use its own color map, which makes it look
really horrible when it's not focused.   Any suggestions on how to
fix this?