[SPARCbook] Patch for Xserver crashes in 16/24/32 bit color

[arno uhlmelmahei]

"Scott D. Yelich" wrote:

> MY 3GS seems to "crash" out of CDE and take me back to the CDE login
> screen whenever I use fbconfig -m 2 or fbconfig -m 4 ... and microsoft
> explorer 5.  Has anyone else witnessed a sparcbook 3 GS/GX exhibiting
> this type of behaviour?  I thought there was a tadpole patch for
> 16bitness or something, but all of the tadpole pacthes were installed --
    This is a known issue with the xserver
    that tadpole has recently released a patch
    for. I have it installed and have had 
    no problems since. It is *not* in the large
    patchset. The url below is what you need.
     

 ftp://ftp.tadpole.com/pub/sbu/S3-patches/Solaris_2.6/T030014-01.tar.Z

    best regards,
    arno