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To:	Alex Danilo <alex@ishtek.com>, sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: sam on Solaris
From:	"Mark H. Wilkinson" <mhw@kremvax.demon.co.uk>
Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:57:36 -0500
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> Hi,
> 	Has anyone had success running Sam on Solaris.  I know there are 
> Make.solaris files, and yes, the out of the box distribution compiles fine.
> But, when you run it, it locks up the X-server.

> 	Note, that I've built the 'test' program in libXg, which runs fine,
> but sam barfs the moment you try to use the menus.  All help appreciated.

Just a guess, but are you running on a 15bpp X server? libXg only supports
screens whose depth is a power of 2. Popping up a menu trys to create a
bitmap with depth 16 to store part of the screen bitmap; the X server
faults the request, causing sam to bomb out.

-Mark.