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

When I tried to run abiword in 4-bit color (from an rxvt, so I could see 
the error messages when it failed to load, rather than from the icewm 
menu) I was informed that it will not work in 4-bit color depth and to 
file a bug report.  I have written the author asking for 4-bit or 1-bit 
color support.

Xvesa does not ever display properly on any of my video cards in 8-bit 
color.  The background is dark mustard instead of blue, and any gif or 
jpeg images come out entirely scrambled.


Do you have any options that end in 15 or 16?  Both Xvesa and Abiword (and 
Links2) ought to work in those.  Do you have 800x600x15 (or 16)?  Steven's 
Xsetup menu does not offer 15 or 16-bit color, but if your card supports 
15-bit, the 12-bit choice might get you that, otherwise it seems to put 
Xvesa into 8-bit mode.  If you don't have 15-bit, you can manually edit 
the Xconfig file (whatever he called it) for 16-bit, or you can try typing
xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 800x600x16.

Are you using icewm?  I found that swm won't work at more than 4-bit color 
with one of my newer video cards, but icewm will.  You can test to see if 
Xvesa works without a wm:  Xvesa -screen 800x600x16.


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Dan Schmidt wrote:

> > What does the following give you?
> > ----------------
> > Xvesa -listmodes
> > ----------------
>
> This command gives me many options.  x8 is an option
> for 600x800 however when I choose it, it comes up with
> garbage for about 7 seconds and then boot into a
> horribly wrong colored icewm.  (as other options have
> done) x4 seems to work great.  It lists 4 as Planar
> and 8 as PseudoColor, I'm not sure why. It also lists
> sizes such as 1024x768 that, when I try, is too large
> to fit on my screen.
>
> So perhaps abiword does not work in x4?
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan
>
>
>
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