Re: [Closed REQ 5496]: geomview error message

["Tim Rowley" <trowley>]

> X-Geomview currently supports only 24, 8, and 1 bit
>         deep displays.  No supported display depth was found.
>         Please mail the output of "xdpyinfo" to
>         software@geom.umn.edu
> 
> I ftp'd a pre-compiled binary package so I have no idea what custom
> configuration may have been compiled in.  Is it possible that it may
> have been compiled for 8bit use only?

Geomview dynamically choses the best available visual to use.
Unfortunately, the distributed version doesn't know how to handle
16 bit visuals.  The next version will support them.  Until then,
run in 8 or 24 bit mode when you want to use geomview.


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