From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 5:40: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from csad.coventry.ac.uk (unknown [194.66.38.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E668315725 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 05:39:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 8053 invoked by uid 901); 27 Apr 1999 12:39:59 -0000 Message-ID: <19990427123923.8052.qmail@csad.coventry.ac.uk> From: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk Date: Tue, 27 Apr 99 13:24 +0100 Reply-To: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk Subject: Re: X server has "too many" colors? To: Alec Kloss Cc: questions@freebsd.coventry.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Alec Kloss' mail of Tue, 27 Apr 99 06:56 +0500 References: <199904271036.LAA24234@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <199904271156.GAA11707@macbeth.d2si.com> X-Mailer: Af v1.98.4 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 :-( > > > You could try running the app under an Xnest server with 8-bit color. from Xnest(1): -class string This option specifies the default visual class of the nested server. It is similar to the -cc option from the set of standard options except that it will accept a string rather than a number for the visual class specification. The string must be one of the follow- ing six values: StaticGray, GrayScale, StaticColor, PseudoColor, TrueColor, or DirectColor. [...] The class of the default visual of the nested server need not be the same as the class of the default visual of the real server; although, it has to be supported by the real server. -depth int This option specifies the default visual depth of the nested server. The depth of the default visual of the nested server need not be the same as the depth of the default visual of the real server; although, it has to be supported by the real server. I've not tried Xnest. If the manual entries are correct, if your Xserver can't do it then Xnest can't do it. If your X server provided a visual of the correct type, only the VERY badly written software would fail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message