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Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] GDK Error with Ethereal 0.8.18

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From: "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:56:37 +0100
>I am using Ethereal ver 0.8.18 and I getting this error:
>
>Gdk-ERROR **: Palettized display (256-colour)mode not supported on Windows.
aborting....
>
>I am running Windows NT Server, Enterprise Endition Version 4.00" Service
Pack 5, ATI 3d Rage IIC set at >256 colors.
>
>Any help you can give will be helpful, or if you need more infor let me
know.

The GTK (graphics toolkit) used by Ethereal only supports modes with greater
than 256 colours on win32.  Set your colour mode to the next one up.

Graham