Gdk-Warning ** what's that?

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Gdk-Warning ** what's that?
started by: davide

Posted by davide on Feb. 25 2005,17:57

hi guys,
I get this message when I try to launch dillo or firefox or whatever "colorful" app:

Gdk-Warning **: locale not supported by C library
Gdk-Warning **:Visula type-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

also when I shut down the xserver, I can read this text:

warning failed to set locale
failed to load groupfiles
BScreen...

failed to read class hint!

loading th extension datasource
extension manager:checkForMismatches: no access privileges

i've choosen xvesa 800*600 4 bit color; my laptop (compaq armada 4110 p100 40mb of ram) seem not to be compliant with any other resolution.
it seems impossibile to me (in win95 it's much more colorful -and this makes me sad 'cause I want to get rid of it)...if I try framebuffer, anyway, this is what I get:

modprobe: modprobe: can't locate module fb0

what am I doing wrong? any suggest?

thank you
davide

Posted by davide on Feb. 27 2005,08:55

really..no one can help?
I'm stuck with useless 4 color screen...

Posted by ke4nt1 on Feb. 27 2005,13:46

The errors that you are seeing are because of the need for 8 bit color
in most of those apps ( emelfm runs ok in 4 bit color , not much else )

You could try to setup Xfree86, using a conf file that uses a driver especially for
your video chipset, and see if that works better than the xvesa options.
( it should )

Once you CAN get to 8 bit color, your other apps should run fine.

Chances are , you 'll need a LARGE swapfile to make this happen
( 100 MB's or more ) , otherwise, you'll run out of inodes and memory
on a 40MB box long before you get XFree86 setup and installed.

If you are successful, your graphics color and speed will improve nicely.

73
ke4nt

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 28 2005,04:39

I think links-hacked will work with 4 bit color.

You could try DSL 0.8.4 and use links-hacked instead of dillo or firefox.

Or you could try installing XFree86 like ke4nt1 said.

Posted by davide on Feb. 28 2005,07:55

thanks ke4nt1 and cbagger01.
Glinks appearently doea not work either with 4bit. links does, but it' too small.
I'll give a try to Xfree86. Hopefully that xserver won't be too slow on this old machine..

I'll let you know.

Posted by davide on Mar. 11 2005,22:17

mmm..thinking it twice: before I install xfree86 and run the risk of messing it up, is there an easy way to get frame buffer work. i mean is there any module I should enable...any command I can use to make this happen..say to load framebuffer module, then shutdown xserver, run xsetup.sh again and choose framebuffer, then add it to the automatic tasks that the os do when booting..

if there's no way, i'l go xfree86; I've downloaded the dsl extension..

Posted by green on Oct. 01 2005,23:33

Trying the XF86 thing on a Compaq 1520DM with 49Mb RAM.
I am running "out of space on device" before I can get anything done. I have a 200Mb swap partition as well.
Will doing a hard drive install alleviate this problem while still using the 200Mb swap?

Posted by brianw on Oct. 02 2005,03:23

If you have the space and are able to partition your hard drive a HD install may be worth while. Remeber when running from CD your HD is actually your RAM so you are limited. Even with a swap file an app needs to be in ram to run, that is it can't have half of the app (i.e. X or Firefox or Fluxbox, etc...) in ram and the other half in swap. Running from CD or with the toram option uses alot of space that may be needed for apps (and X is an app). If you install to HD, atleast until you know what you need to have a MYDSL remaster, then you can do alot of testing. If you are planning on keeping an HD install and you can afford it make a partition to store your files on if you need to reinstall DSL.

Posted by green on Oct. 03 2005,04:05

brianw, thanks for the tip.

I did an hd install, and now it seems that xfree86 may work. At least it does not complain about being out of space. However, I have not been able to get xfree working, methinks that is due to improper configuraion of the Config-4 file. Tis a bit frustrating, but I hope to cheat and find one online that I can use, but so far, I have not.