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
