From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 10:40:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF1F15569 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.138.232] (helo=dookie.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10cBqe-0008Rw-0C; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:40:45 +0000 Received: by dookie.demon.co.uk via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:38:57 +0100 (BST) Content-Length: 753 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990425165340.A4E1715559@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:38:57 +0100 (BST) Organization: Jon's Place From: Jonathan Belson To: Stan Brown Subject: RE: X server has "too many" colors? Cc: (Free BSD Questions list) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message