Re: [Plplot-general] X protocol errors

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 7 Nov 2001, Simon Pinches TOK wrote:

> I should point out that if I leave the default colour depth as 8 bits
> then plrender works fine.  It is only if I change it to 24 bits (and
> thereby persuade KDE to render everything in 24 bit colour) that
> plrender has problems.  Interestingly, all other applications seem to
> work just fine.

You have emphasized plrender, but I suspect this is actually a bug triggered
by using the xwin driver. (Try "cd tmp; make x01c; ./x01c -dev xwin" to
confirm this.) This is just a guess, but I suspect the xwin driver is
exercising X harder or in a different way than other applications, and that
is triggering a bug in the Sun X server at 24-bits that does not occur for
XFree86 at any supported resolution and that also does not occur in the Sun
X server at 8 bits.

If that guess is right, I don't think there is much more you or we can do.
Such is life with Sun software.  (OOPs, my prejudice is showing....;-))

Alan