From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 22:39:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA09836 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:39:46 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA09829 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:39:42 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id GAA00290; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 06:32:25 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511060632.GAA00290@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Looking for Linux libs 8( To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 06:32:25 +0000 () Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511060302.AA29951@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Nov 6, 95 04:02:26 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 956 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jean-Marc Zucconi stands accused of saying: > They are part of the XFree 3.1.2 distribution. Look for X312lib.tgz at > phoenix.doc.ic.ac.uk:/computing/operating-systems/Linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/X11/XFree86-3.1.2/a.out Thanks Jean-Marc, this has indeed solved the problem! (A hint to anyone working with linux emulation - if you get a strange error from an X-based program complaining about an unknown visual, and you are running a 16-bit display mode, go back to an 8-bit mode and try again. For some reason IDL (Motif?) thinks that 16bpp is 0bpp ... weird ) > Jean-Marc -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[