Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] 0.9.8: No selection of color in IO-Stat possible

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:15:31 -0800
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:42:32AM +0100, stefan.marquardt@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> i run Ethereal 0.9.8 (Redhat 7.3 distribution) on a Siemens Notebook with
> Gnome Desktop.
> 
> All color functions of Ethereal works except Statistics->IO->IO-Stat
> 
> I can apply filters but see only black lines - this is not very useful.

How many colors does your notebook have?  Does it have an 8-bit display
(or is the mode in which your X server is running it 8-bit)?

If you run it from a terminal window (xterm, etc.), does it print a
"Couldn't allocate color" warning?