Andrew Brown writes:
> >>Synopsis:       xearth loses on a 24bit depth frame buffer
> 
> this has bothered me for a while, but i'm not enough of a x hacker to
> have figured it out for myself.  thanks.

Thanks, although actually I don't understand X either.  Luck was with
me and the first thing I tried fixed the problem.

I don't understand how this code could ever have been tested.  For all
I know there are 2 styles of 24-bit frame-buffer and the xfree86 SVGA
drivers created a second, incompatible standard.

> ps - i have some other "hacks" that i've made to xearth.  do you know
> if i can submit them back to the xearth maintainer (is there one
> still?) or should i just try to submit them as extra patches to the
> xearth package?

I submitted it here figuring that xearth was orphaned.  I guess I
could submit it to xfree also and see if they can forward it to the
author, wherever he may be.

-wolfgang
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