[cairo-bugs] [Bug 4945] Cairo doesn't support 8-bit pseudocolor visuals

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4945


marek.rouchal at gmx.net changed:

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------- Comment #65 from marek.rouchal at gmx.net  2008-01-03 05:47 PST -------
I stumbled across a similar problem: Firefox wouldn't start on a 256-color
Citrix Metaframe (aka ICA) display (commercial software to display X on a
Windows PC). So I took cairo-1.4.12, applied the most recent of the attached
patches, compiled my own libcairo, and started firefox 2.0.0.6 with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to the new libcairo, which resulted in this error message:

Error: Cairo 1.4.12 does not yet support the requested image format:
        Depth: 8
        Alpha mask: 0x00000000
        Red   mask: 0x00000000
        Green mask: 0x00000000
        Blue  mask: 0x00000000
Please file an enhancement request (quoting the above) at:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=cairo
firefox-bin: cairo-image-surface.c:199: _cairo_format_from_pixman_format:
Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed.

I tried changing line 173 of src/cairo-image-surface.c to:
    case 8:
       if ((am == 0xff || am == 0x0) &&

But that did not help - firefox then crashes with a segfault. Could be that the
version jump of libcairo.so.2.9.2 to libcairo.so.2.11.6 was too high, and I'd
have to recompile all GTK/firefox, which I cannot afford. I will try patching
the older release of cairo (1.2.4), and let you know...


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