We wish to run an old X program which has hard-coded an 8 plane visual.
Bad practice but fixing it does not look like a 2 minute job.  The
problem machines are running RH 7.1 with XFree86 4.0.3. The graphics
card is an ATI Rage 128. Modifying the config file for the X server
works for 15, 16 and 24 planes but not 8. The log for the X server
reports a memory manager failure. The man page for the r128 driver
states that 8 planes is supported.

The program runs and displays fine on X systems which can provide an 8
plane visual. We have checked this for Solaris and Debian/Linux. We are
fairly sure the latter machine has the same graphics card as the problem
machines.

Many thanks for any tips, pointers or suggestions.
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