Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Error repported by Etherel

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gilramir@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:28:15 -0600
> Francisco Edson Rocha wrote:
> 
> When I try to get Ethereal executing, I get the error "Gdk-ERROR**:
> Palettized display (256-colour) mode not supported on Windows.
> aborting..."
> I'm running win95, downloaded all the stuff for this environment and
> followed the instruction to instal the dll's.
> Somebody tells me what's wrong, please ?
> 
> a) Francisco Edson
> 
> PS: Analyzer is running fine im my machine (uses WinPcap).
> 

The problem is that the new version of GTK+ for Win32 doesn't run
with 256 colors or less.

You can either:
	1. Increase the amount of colors on your system.
	2. Try the previous version of the GTK+ libraries, which
		did operate with 256 colors. You can download them from:
	
http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/old-versions/gtk-libs-20000805.zip

--gilbert