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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Theo Perry wrote:
> > What type of machine are you running BL3 and
> > Abiword on, Steven?
>
> At the moment it's running on a 200MMX.  I tried it
> on my 486 laptop (VGA screen), but AbiWord stopped
> with a message saying it doesn't work with a color
> depth of 4.  I reduced the color depth to 4 on the
> 200MMX and got the same message.  I also tried mono
> (depth=1) but that didn't work either.

Flwrite had the same problem, won't work with plain VGA.
Opera used to work in mono but now requires lots of colors.
This is idiotic on the part of the programmers.

Depth of 4 - plain VGA (16 color) meaning Abiword is unlikely to work on 
the default X for BL2 (xvga server).  It is great that you have it working 
with Xvesa in BL3 now.

I don't understand why a wordprocessor INSISTS on lots of colors when it 
could be used in mono for most purposes.    Or a sound program 
(Realaudio).

>

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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