From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 25 11:52:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF60914EFF for ; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA05102; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:09:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:09:50 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: X server has "too many" colors? In-Reply-To: <19990425165340.A4E1715559@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Stan Brown wrote: > I am trying to run a vendor supplied X task displaying on my FreeBSD > machine. My FreeBSD machine is configured for 64K colors. The app keeps > core dumping :-( > > The vendor swears that I have "To Many Colors", and that it will run if > I reduce my colors to 256. I really don;t want to reduce the colors to > this. > > Does this make any sense? How could to many colors cause a problem? I > could see too fwe, but to many? > > Any X coders got an opinion on this? Your vendor sucks. I don't have any experiance with it, but you may want to try installing and using the "nested X server" man Xnest man Xvfb -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message