Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:38:57 +0100 (BST) From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> To: Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> Cc: (Free BSD Questions list) <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: X server has "too many" colors? Message-ID: <XFMail.990426193857.jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19990425165340.A4E1715559@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 25-Apr-99 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? As a wild stab in the dark, the developers were too lazy to write code to handle all the common screen depths and assumed an 8-bit indexed display. C-YA Jon <http://www.dookie.demon.co.uk>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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