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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:47:07 -0600 (CST)
From:      Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
To:        Mostyn/Annabella <mrl@teleport.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Acrobat problems?
Message-ID:  <199711190147.TAA10035@zuhause.mn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199711181756.JAA05389@user2.teleport.com>
References:  <199711170737.BAA03677@zuhause.mn.org> <199711181756.JAA05389@user2.teleport.com>

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Mostyn/Annabella writes:
 > > 
 > > Is anyone else having problems running Acrobat 3.0 or 3.01 (Linux) on
 > > -current?  When I run 3.0, Acrobat tells me that it's trapped a
 > > segfault on every pdf file I try, and 3.01 doesn't segfault, but the
 > > display is all messed up.  I'm running SMP from around 10/27 .........
 > 
 > I noticed the same thing on 2.2.5-STABLE a few days old.
 > 
 > With a matrox millenium (MGA - SVGA server) and XFree86 3.3.1 and
 > a bits per pixel depth of 24 (startx -- -bpp 24) the acrobat display
 > is messed up with predominantly blue letters; but with pixel depths
 > of 16 and 32, it's OK.

Changing the pixel depth to 16 solved my problem.  I'm not sure why,
but I can't get 1280x1024 with bpp 32 on my 4MB Matrox Millenium and
17" Hitachi 611 monitor.



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