Re: Gnome on MI/X X Server

[Bibek Sahu <scorpio dodds net>]

Howdy,

	Although I don't know for sure, I doubt that the problem is a
32-bit visual -- I'm currently using Gnome on a Linux box running X at
1600x1200x32.  Everything works quite well here.

- Bibek

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Dave Williss wrote:

> The new MI/X is R6, but perhaps I'm missing some extension.  What
> in R6 did it require that R5 didn't have?
> 
> Just for laughs, I put a break-point in ProcQueryExtension() to see
> what extensions were being requested that we don't support and
> here's what I found:
> 
> MIT-SHM extension is not supported for non-local clients (duh :-)
> 
> XKEYBOARD is not supported.  XFree86 doesn't seem to have it
> either.
> 
> MIT-SCREEN-SAVER not supported.  (Windows has its own screen
> saver)
> 
> We also don't have the XFree86-Misc extension or
> XFree86-VidModeExtention.  The Misc one seems to deal with
> mainly keyboard and mouse settings and the VidMode extension
> is obviously for an X server that lets you muck with hardware
> video settings on-the-fly.
> 
> Is there something here that Gnome can't live without?  If so, we could
> at least give it a fake version that wouldn't do anything but could give
> Gnome fake values.
> 
> Or is there some other thing we're not supporting that Gnome needs.
> >From my tests, it seemed that it was dying in some image library, and
> I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that we provide a
> 32-bit visual instead of 16 or 24.  It seemed like some buffer got
> overrun and then it crashed.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff Reedy" <vader21 imsa edu>
> To: "Dave Williss" <dwilliss microimages com>
> Cc: <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Gnome on MI/X X Server
> 
> 
> >
> > I don't know if this is the problem with this new version, but I remember
> the
> > last time I tried to use GTK or GNOME on MI/X I ran into problems with the
> > fact that it was only X11R5,  it seems that (at least parts of) GTK and/or
> > GNOME require an X11R6 server.
> >
> > --
> > Geoffrey Reedy                                       vader21 imsa edu
> >
> > "Unix-to-Unix Copy Program;" said PDP-1.  "You will never find a more
> > wretched hive of bugs and flamers.  We must be cautious."
> > -- DECWARS
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