Bug#163935: xdm does not start / crashes

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:38:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> This is beginning to sound familiar.
> 
> A lot of people with low bit-depth displays began having trouble in
> XFree86 4.2.0 because the RENDER extension in the server preallocates a
> color cube.
> 
> In fact, this color cube is 6x6x6, which means that 244 are already
> pulled out of the colormap.
> [...]
> 
> Since I do not think there is a way to tell the X server to disable the
> RENDER extension or pre-allocate a smaller colormap, the best solution
> probably is to just give depth 8 users a black-and-white logo.
> 
> Thanks for following up.

OK, that makes sense.  So changing the default /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
would be adequate to close this bug report.

   Julian

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