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From: "Mark H. Wilkinson" <mhw@kremvax.demon.co.uk>
To: Alex Danilo <alex@ishtek.com>, sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: sam on Solaris
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:57:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903252357.4232.sam.bagon@kremvax.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99Mar23.164638est.24733@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca>

> 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.


      reply	other threads:[~1999-03-26 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-23 12:13 Alex Danilo
1999-03-25 23:57 ` Mark H. Wilkinson [this message]

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