[rescue] OT: mozilla on IRIX

Gregory Leblanc rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Oct 17 20:36:28 CDT 2001


On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 13:17, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 03:00:25 (-0400), Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] OT: mozilla on IRIX
> > I am curious if you have seen any weird color flashing under Mozilla, or
> > maybe that is just a result of the program being slower, to the extent
> > that X commands being sent are not faster than sight.
> 
> "weird color flashing"?????
> 
[snip]
> properly support 8-bpp displays.  It turns out that while the most
> common response has been that they don't think 8-bbp hardware is worthy
> of supporting (which should raise the ire of every "rescue" subscriber!)

Well, it doesn't bother me.  I don't use X on 8-bit graphics, just a
nice crisp Linux FB console.  I do all of my work in xterms anyway, I
just have to remember to replace A-tab with A-left/right arrow.  :-)
	Greg





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