Re: 5.41 crashes when creating gif's

[Helge Avlesen <avle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Sirott <sirott@pmel.noaa.gov> writes:

| My guess is that it is unfortunately a Ferret problem and that it's
| related to the fact that you are using a TrueColor 24 bit visual on
| your X server. I get a core dump from ferret v5.41 on solaris if I try
| to create a GIF from my 16 bit TrueColor visual.
| 
| You can use the xdpyinfo command to verify what kind of X visual your
| X server is using. You might try starting your X server with a 8 bit
| PseudoColor visual to verify that the visual is the source of the
| problem.

you are right - gif generation from Ferret works with 8bit depth -
crashes on 24(which is what I use normally)

Helge