From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:59:28 +0000

Re: Failed to open default visual

Jason Twamley wrote:
> 
> Thank you Andreas,
> 
> Firstly the text "unable to open default visual, exiting."
> appears in
> /demos/titler/titler.c
> /demos/vr/vr.c
> /extensions/misc/demos/misctest.c
> 
> The debug setting LIBGGI_DEBUG=255 works and gives me:
> init.c:195: Debugging=255
> init.c:346: Loading driver display-KGI:/dev/graphic
> dl.c:55: hand.handle=0x804c7b0
> dl.c:62: hand.init=0x400df908
> dl.c:63: hand.cleanup=0x400df9bc
> dl.c:92: 0x804d960=_ggiLoadDL("/usr/local/lib/ggi/display/kgi.so")
> dl.c:97: -2147483648=dlh->init(0x804d5d0,"/dev/graphic") - display-KGI
> /usr/loca
> l/lib/ggi/display/kgi.so
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804d664
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804d6b4
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804d714
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804d82c
> init.c:346: Loading driver display-svga
> dl.c:55: hand.handle=(nil)
> dl.c:92: (nil)=_ggiLoadDL("/usr/local/lib/ggi/display/svgalib.so")
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804d6a4
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804d6f4
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804d98c
> dl.c:219: ZAPDL call: 0x804d5d0 0x804c774
> demo: unable to open default visual, exiting.
> init.c:275: ggiExit: really destroying.

Weren't you using kgicon? You should anyway.
Your libggi is way to old to work with kgicon, please rebuild it
from a recent devel snapshot.

//Marcus
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