Laptops :: no Background - xsri not happy

I am running DSL on a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/75CX laptop. It is a 486DX with 24 megs of RAM and a 640x480 color LCD.

DSL boots up fine, and X even runs, but I never get a "real backgrond" I am just stuck with the X windows "dogbone" or "crosshatch" or whatever you call it.

I found that when the ./.background program runs it does not work. Instead xsri gives this error:

Gdk-WARNING **: Visual types=static color depth=4, image bpp=4, lsb first is not supported by GdkRGB. Please submit a bug report with the above values to bugzilla.gnome.org

Any ideas why xsri is spitting out this error?

Thank you.

do solid colors work? (ie minimal theme)

What's your video settings? Maybe you need at least a 8 bit color depth

Any theme seems to work, although some look horrible. Programs work. It all works, I just have that horrible background that makes the little system stats program hard to see.

I have run xsetup.sh several times and chosen all sorts of combinations. It actually seems to have no affect on how xwindows runs though. I'm not really sure what color depth I am running at. Since changing the screen resolution in xsetup has no affect, I tend to think that changing the color depth has no affect either.

How do I force X into a particular color depth? How do I know what it is running at?

EDIT: Sorry, it does NOT all work. I do not get the icons on the desktop either.

ah yea, I think you probably did not restart X after.
On-the-fly video setting switching isn't in DSL by default.

(to restart, ie exit fluxbox, then at the tty run `startx`)

Uh, right, obviously. I shut down Xwindows I run xsetup.sh. Then I startx again, but it always comes up with the same resolution (and I assume color depth) each time.

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