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Date:      Thu, 05 Jan 1995 03:18:05 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "David M. Holloway" <daveh@csua.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xv 
Message-ID:  <199501051118.DAA01409@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jan 95 03:11:20 PST." <199501051111.DAA19190@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> 

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>except when I ftp'd the package of xv
>it did not work properly, colors were not right . ometimes close but never right.
>so grabbed the port instead, compiled it... and it too behaved the same
>so just to be sure I ftp'd the tiff and jpeg sources compiled them
>and still no improvment, I am simly baffled because I have no where too
>go to to figure this out, usually I have been aable to figure out lots of
>buggy software from error message but there are no error meage
>jut wrong colors.

   It sounds as though xv isn't able to allocate enough colormap entries to
adequately display the picture. Does it look better if you use xv -perfect,
and then move the pointer into the picture window?

-DG



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