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Date:      Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:09:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
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:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990425140813.2095d-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990425165340.A4E1715559@hub.freebsd.org>

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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



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