[25313] in Athena Bugs
8-bit mode on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Fri Nov 14 12:04:50 2003
Message-Id: <200311141704.hAEH4k3I003218@maleficent.mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:04:45 -0500
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Reply-To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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So, it was noted today in the OLC office that the "Restart in 8-bit
mode" on Linux doesn't actually seem to do anything. (ie: if you log in
and run xdpyinfo, it still says "24 planes" for the root window.).
Dsgrepping in release-team yields transaction 2375, the announcement for
8.4.10, in which it is noted:
* The xlogin resources for Linux are cleaned up, and include a
"restart in 8-bit mode" option. Unfortunately, the option
doesn't work quite yet due to some X server configuration
issues.
Has this ever worked? If so, can it be fixed to work again? If not,
can we remove it from the xlogin options on Linux so that users don't
get confused. We had a user ssh'ing from a linux machine to a sun
machine and needing to run a program that wanted 8-bit mode. Naturally
he tried the login option, but it still failed.
-Jon
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jdreed@mit.edu
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