Hi,

    I have gnome 2.0 installed on a Sunbalde 2000.  Some of the gnome 
games work fine but others don't seem to display their graphics.  I get 
no errors or anything.  Like if I try and play glines, all I get is a 
gey screen for the game along with the menus, no game playing grid or 
graphics.  Anyone any idea why this might be ?

Thanxs,

Phil

Phil Hoggins <phil.hoggins@uk.sun.com> writes:
>    I have gnome 2.0 installed on a Sunbalde 2000.  Some of the gnome 
>games work fine but others don't seem to display their graphics.  I get 
>no errors or anything.  Like if I try and play glines, all I get is a 
>gey screen for the game along with the menus, no game playing grid or 
>graphics.  Anyone any idea why this might be ?

The Gnome coders, like most of the PC-unix world assumes that the
default Visual is 24-bit. Sun along with some of the other traditional
unix vendors start up their X servers with 24-bit visuals available,
but have an 8-bit visual as the "default" visual. 

The solution is to startup your X server with a default of
24-bit. Your desktop will probably look alot better too for it. I
don't know why Sun doesn't do this as the default on machines that
have frame-buffers that are at least 24-bit (most modern Sun WKS?)
since its a losing battle it seems to make the PC unix coders put in the
small bit of code needed to scan through the visuals, find the 24-bit
one they want to use, and use it.

Add on the config options "defdepth 24 defclass TrueColor" to the line
starting up the X server in /etc/dt/config/Xservers. If you don't have
one already, cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers /etc/dt/config/Xservers and
edit it from the /etc location.
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