Re: AbiWord and 8bbp
Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.abisource.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:09:22 -0500
michael@surfnetcity.com.au wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:08:19AM -0500, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:
>
> > I started an 8-bit X server on a Matrox G100, hogged all the
> > colors possible with Netscape, xearth, xv, and AbiWord
> > still looked great. I got the exact same funky technicolor
> > on the Laptop, though... the client area of AbiWord looked
> > good but the window manager decorations, the root window,
> > and other applications got flipped.
>
> Sounds like the X server you're using doesn't like shared colour maps...
>
> What happenned to the good ol' days, when people used only want to run
> 1 program at a time? ;-)
I'm thinking that may be it. The few machines I've seen or heard
reported problems on have been laptops or older machines with
graphics cards which could share a Chips & Technologies chipset
graphics board.
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Shaw Terwilliger
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