Re: DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape
Setting DefaultColorDepth to 32 seems to solve the problem. Thanks
Erik.
Erik Steffl said on April 5, 2001 at 09:57 (-0700)
>Carl Greco wrote:
>>
>> Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and
>> netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are
>> OK.
>>
>> With DefaultColorDepth set to 16 all is well with acroread and
>> netscape. Is this a know problem? Is there a fix without upgraded
>> XFree86?
>>
>> System software and hardware are the following:
>>
>> Debian 2.2r2 (patched with latest security patches)
>> xserver-svga (3.3.6-11potato32)
>> enlightenment (0.16.3-8)
>> gnome-core (1.0.55-2)
>> netscape (4.75/U.S., 15-Aug-00; non-deb package)
>> acroread (4.05-1)
>> Matrox G400
>
> with some cards you might be able to use 32 (which is actually 24 bits
>used for color but uses 32 bits per pixel because of memory layout or
>something like that (the extra byte is unused, no alpha or anything like
>that AFAIK), 3dfx cards work like that, not sure about matrox).
>
> erik
>
>
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