Bug#163935: xdm does not start / crashes
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 22:14, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:56:10AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:08:55PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> When replacing the xserver-xfree86 package (and only this) with the version
> from Woody, everything works fine even with the "colorful" logo. I have done
> some further tests with applications that allocate a few colors. The same
> behaviour here - with the Xserver from Woody (4.1.0-16) everything is fine
> (within what you can expect from 8bit colordepth) while when running the
> current unstable Xserver (4.2.1-8) I get things like black menus with black
> text on it and alike. Running wdm on the 4.2.1 Xserver gives me a
> black-on-black login prompt; while running on the 4.1.0-16 Xserver
> everything looks fine.
This is probably related to the render extension, and I think 4.3 should
be better, in particular with the help of Option "RenderColormapMode".
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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