On Sun, 12 May 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> On 13-May-2002 Michael WARDLE wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Has anybody successfully built and run Blackbox on IRIX?  When I build
> > 0.62.1 on an Octane then install it on my Indy (both running IRIX
> > 6.5.x) the menubar and the mouse menus are all just black boxes with
> > the odd colored pixel (no textures and no writing).  Hopefully this is
> > not where Blackbox derives its name. :-)
> >
> > I noticed an older thread about this on the mailing list, but I don't
> > think there were any responses that help get it working.
> >
> > I'm also building 0.65.0alpha1 at the moment, so I'll see how that
> > goes.
> >
>
> I have personally witnessed successful compiles on IRIX.  Even acquired a
> temporary shell account to help solve the problems involved.
>
> What you are witnessing is color control issues.  This is currently documented
> on the sf.net tracker with bug number 521563.  Anything you can further add
> there is welcomed.

I have had this problem on Solaris 8 (sparc), when the
display has lots of color depths. xdpyinfo says something
like (I am doing this from memory):

screen #0:
  dimensions: ....
  resolution: 75x75 dpi
  depths (4): 32 16 8 2

on other Solaris 8 boxen when that just says: (also memory)
  depths (1): 16
things are fine. I did some tracing thru the code then, and
it was definitely linked to color depth problems. (bb 0.62
maybe?)

-James

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