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RE: Color problems XDCMP to 16 and 24bit (probably endianness)
- To: "'Staf Verhaegen'" <staf dot verhaegen at imec dot be>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: Color problems XDCMP to 16 and 24bit (probably endianness)
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 07:21:16 -0400
in your /usr/X11R6/bin rename xwin.exe to xwin.exe.org and rename xwin95.exe
to xwin.exe
you will be fine.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Staf Verhaegen [mailto:staf.verhaegen@imec.be]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 6:38 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Color problems XDCMP to 16 and 24bit (probably endianness)
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Tuesday I downloaded the latest binaries of XFree 86 for
> cygwin (4_0_3).
> I'm running this on a Windows NT (4.00.1381 SP3) machine.
> X is a link to XWin.exe.
> When starting a XDMCP session like:
> X -query host -screen scrn 1280x1024xdepth
> with depth of 16bits or 24bits.
> I happens when either the host is a Linux i86 Red Hat machien
> or a HPUX 10.20
> or 11 machine.
> In 24bit it looks like the red and the blue are switched. on
> 16bit the colors
> are more disturbed.
> I suppose this is an endianess problem somewhere in the code.
>
> greets,
> Staf.
>
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