[Xastir] Couldn't allocate color problem

[Jim Shorney]

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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:56:14 -0800, Chris Bell wrote:


>Normally you want to increase the number of colors your display
>supports, but this is an alternative.  ( Most of my Sun Sparcstations
>have 8-bit framebuffers, so can only do 256 colors.)


And hicolor video cards for my IBM microchannel machines are scarce as
hen's teeth (ignoring any discussion about Linux support).  So why do I
use them?  No RFI.  No downtime.  Cheap spares.  Double nicely as
furniture supports.  Keep my feet warm in winter.

Let's not forget about 8BPP support!

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