On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote:

>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.
>
>This problem was fixed many moons ago.  Upgrade to a newer XFree86.

Just to add to that, XFree86 4.0.3 is what shipped in Red Hat 
Linux 7.1.  The current erratum release of XFree86 is 4.1.0-15 
for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2.

Also, experimental XFree86 4.2.0 packages are available at the
ftp URL in my signature built for Red Hat Linux 7.2, which should
likely work ok in 7.1 as well.

I recommend using the 4.1.0-15 erratum release first to see 
if it includes the fix, and if not, you can try the 
experimental release if you're brave enough.  ;o)

Hope this helps.


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