A few people have noted problems running sam and 9term on 24 bpp or 32 bpp displays (we would get the error 'libg: i/o error' when we tried to open a menu in 9term or simply bring up samterm). It appears that my problem may have stemmed from a problem specific to the 9libs port of the original libXg library. The other day I installed limbo, and found that wm/wm couldn't handle 16bpp depth. 8bpp was unacceptable to me, and I had not been able to run sam and 9term in 24bpp mode before. Today I installed the original samterm from Rob Pike's release, available at ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/research/sam.shar.gz, and found the samterm compiled from that source works perfectly at 24bpp. I recompiled my 9term against this original libXg, and found that it also works at 24bpp without any visible problems. Since the samterm works with the latest sam (editor only) released a few months ago, I'm happy. =) My original goal was to get a static version of libXg compiled so that I could debug it with gdb. I was having great difficulty getting the 9libs version working with gdb (perhaps because it uses this .la/.lo format that I've never really understood). Imagine my surpise when compiling the original libXg fixed the problem. =) Jim