Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote at 10:48 +0200 on Jul 13:
 > >>>>> "John" == John E Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 > John> I am trying to run lyx-1.0.3 on RedHat 5.2 I get the following
 > John> error:
 > 
 > John> In flvisual.c[217]: Can't find an appropriate visual
 > 
 > John> I am running VNC server on the same linux machine using a
 > John> TrueColor visual and 8 bit color depth.  I need to run with 8
 > John> bit color (as opposed to 16 or greater) in order to support some
 > John> legacy software.
 > 
 > As far as I know, 8bit+TrueColor does not make sense, since 8bit
 > always uses a palette. You should configure vnc so that the visual is
 > PseudoColor.

That did the trick (run vncserver with '-cc 3'... 3 => PseudoColor from
  /usr/X11/include/X.h)

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