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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: sam-9libs vs. Linux (RH 6.0)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:10:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000329051033.26969.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>  of "Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:28:56 EST." <200003281828.KAA18140@highwire.stanford.edu>

| I seem to recall it was a libXg problem. Someone explained that part of
| the code expects the depth to be have some properties that don't apply
| to 24bit depth (or, I guess, 32bit). I'm sorry that I don't remember
| the details.

Yes, exactly.  The bug was, libXg only does power-of-two depths, so 24
bits doesn't work.  Annoyingly, most X servers don't let you ask for
more than one depth visual, which would be the obvious workaround for
something like sam.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-03 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-28 18:15 Jim Crigler
2000-03-28 18:28 ` James A. Robinson
2000-03-29  0:07   ` Daniel Neri
2000-03-29  5:10   ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-03-29  4:12 Jim Crigler
2000-03-27 13:52 Jim Crigler
2000-03-27 20:54 ` James A. Robinson

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