On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, A.P.Manners wrote: > 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.
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