[17535] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.25: netscape acrobat reader plugin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Sat Feb 12 02:55:00 2000
Message-Id: <200002120754.CAA15653@defiant.mit.edu>
To: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:54:55 -0500
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
System name: defiant.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.3.25 (with mkserv)
Display type: m
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: twm
What were you trying to do?
Use the Acrobat plugin to read a PDF file in Netscape
Started Netscape with the "-install" option to use its own
colormap, because otherwise it makes life intolerable for
other X apps.
What's wrong:
The plugin does not set up its colormap right on Sparc m64
framebuffer running in 8-bit mode (to get the high resolution
on an ultra5; details below). The background is blue, widget
foreground black, widget shadow red, and document is very weird
(the antialiased-font coloration is so awful as to be unreadable!)
The plugin _does_ swap in a colormap but it doesn't seem to initialize
it right. I can tell it's using the Netscape colormap because other
Netscape subwindows get the right colors when I put the mouse
over the PDF plugin window.
What should have happened:
It should have shown non-screwy colors, I think..
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
See m64config man page in solaris doc.
On my workstation, the contents of /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig are:
package="SUNWm64cf"
class="XSCREENCONFIG" name="SUNWm640"
device="/dev/fbs/m640"
res="1280x1024x75"
depth="8";
(this is the equivalent of "m64config -depth 8 -res 1280x1024 -file machine")
