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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

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