On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:08:55PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > I can confirm that this bug happens on 8bit displays. I have just had > it on an hppa system with the current xdm from unstable (4.2.1-8). [...] > X works when started via "startx", so the problem is not in the Xserver. Well, I wouldn't go that far. startx works because nothing is trying to render that pixmap. If color allocation is busted in the server for PseudoColor visuals, then we *are* dealing with an X server bug. > After applying the patch to /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources mentionend > in bug #163935 to get a monochrome Debian logo for xdm, xdm starts up. Okay. > This bug did not occur with a woody installation which was running on > the same hardware before, so this problem seems to have been introduced > with XFree 4.2. This data point I find most frustrating. Have you tried downgrading *only* the xserver-xfree86 package to its woody version? If you do, can you reproduce the problem? -- G. Branden Robinson | One doesn't have a sense of humor. Debian GNU/Linux | It has you. branden@debian.org | -- Larry Gelbart http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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