[Xastir] online terraserver maps black, too

[Ray Wells]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:25:16PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <dick.repasky at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>   
>> I wrote earlier about having trouble with .geo files from splat. I
>> decided to try some of the .geo files that are distributed with xastir.
>>
>> All the terraserver .geo files render as sheets of solid black. Online
>> TIGER maps are fine as are WMSRadar.geo, TXRadar.geo and USRadar.geo.
>>
>> Do you think that this might have to do with compiling against
>> graphicsmagick rather than imagemagick?
>>     
>
> Yes.  The issue is a known one.  GraphicsMagick has a default value of 
> "QuantumDepth" that is not  working properly with Xastir.  If you can 
> reconfigure graphicsmagick with the right options you could fix it.
> (I don't have them handy, but they'd be in the list archives because this has 
> come up several times in the last month or so.)
>
> If you can't rebuild GraphicsMagick, link against ImageMagick instead.
>
> Someone needs to go through the code in Xastir that depends on QuantumDepth
> being 16 and fix it so it works with other values.
>
>   
I can confirm that splat produced ppm/geo works fine with Imagemagick, I 
just created one.

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