trouble with d.mon under linux

[Bruce_Byars at baylor.edu]

Andrea,

More than likely your video card is the culprit (not having enough power in
some older cards).  To fix this, you may try shutting down any
other color-intensive programs you may be running (Netscape, graphics
and drawing software, etc.).  Then restart GRASS and things should
be ok for you.  Let me know if this doesn;t work.

Regards,
Bruce

--
Bruce Byars
GRASS Dev. Team
CAGSR - Baylor Univ.

Andrea Bistacchi wrote:

> Dear all,
> I just finished installing Grass5beta6 (intel PC with linux redhat 6.1),
> but when I try opening a window I get the following error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>                     MONITOR MENU
>
> Making sure that the graphics monitor is running
>
>      1 - start a graphics monitor
>      2 - stop a graphics monitor
>
> Choosing a graphics monitor for your graphics
>
>      3 - select a graphics device for output
>
> RETURN - quit
>
> > 1
>
> Enter name of graphics monitor to start
> Enter "list" for a list of known monitors
> Enter "list -f" for a list with current status
> Hit RETURN to return to menu
> > x6
> can not allocate any read/write color cells
> Problem selecting x6. Will try once more
>
> hit RETURN ->
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Obviously, after this error I cannot do anything...
>
> I tried to follow some suggestions in the grass FAQ's, but it didn't help.
>
> Could someone please help me?
>
> thank you in advance
>
> Andrea