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Re: GEMPAK on RedHat 7.3?

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  • Subject: Re: GEMPAK on RedHat 7.3?
  • Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:51:41 -0500
In a previous message to me, you wrote: 

 >Pete,
 >
 >The xfree86.org group has broken our utilization of XFree86 in the transition
  > 
 >from 4.0.3 to 4.2.0.  I'm in the process of examining source diffs between 
 >4.0.2 and 4.2.0, but it takes a long time, and is tedious.  I have posted 
 >notes on this to address@hidden, and received several wild goose chases.  
 >No one "official" from xfree86.org development core as responded, despite 
 >having a bug report on this submitted.

It *does* work under a completely patched redhat 7.2 
(XFree86-4.1.0-15 in redhat's package naming scheme) so apparently 
the change happened between 4.1.0 and 4.2.0.  I'm digging through 
the CHANGELOG on the xfree86 site to see if anything looks 
promising, but I am also not an X person.

One other clue, on another machine that I upgraded, using wxp to draw
maps on 8 bit Xvfb displays, all of a sudden none of the colors worked
right there either.  I changed the Xvfb to 16 bit and now it works fine.

 >
 >Finally, one response I received on xpert indicated something about X doing 
 >allocation in 8bit mode for some "216 color cube."  I'm not an X guru, by any
  > 
 >means, so I have no idea what this means.  If anyone out there wants to help 
 >with the diff examination, I'll gladly put the diff somewhere for everyone to
  > 
 >look . . . 

I'd be happy to help out. I'll quit wasting my time here with
different settings, window managers, etc trying to get it to work, 
sounds like you've exhausted that route.

Thanks for the info, happy diff'ing...

Pete

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