Bug#392983: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

[Julien Danjou]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 12:10:28AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> It is not your card, but your X server. You can configure your X
> server to run in PseudoColor (256 indexed colors) instead
> of TrueColor (2^16 or 2^24 fixed colors), just start it with -depth 8.
> 
> PseudoColor was the norm on older hardwares where the video card has only
> enough RAM for 8bit per pixel colors.
> 
> PseudoColor allows you to do very fast color cycling, try the starfish
> screensaver (in xscreensaver), it is much nicer in PseudoColor than in
> TrueColor.

Thanks for your nice explanation, but that means than no one running a
"normal" Xserver will be able to use koules ?
I mean, my X configuration is not weird, it was generated by debconf.

Cheers,
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