d.mon and colors

[Alejandro Imass]

Moritz Lennert wrote:

> Hello !
>
> I'm using Grass5b7 binaries on SuSE  6.3.
> When starting a monitor with d.mon I get weird colors on my entire
> screen whenever the monitor is the active window. I tried giving different
> values for nlev but for any value I give I always get the same message:
>
> using default visual which is PseudoColor
> ncolors: 256
> Graphics driver [x0] started
>
> What do I need to do ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Moritz

Seems like you either have little video memory, your color deph is not set
right (not enogh colors) or a general video configuration problem.
Are you using an SiS (motherboard 748) with integrated video?

Regards,
Alejandro Imass