I'm forwarding the following email (bug report) to this list. I was able to reproduce the bug described in his email, although I run a 16-bit X-server. I don't *think* the bug is only in my pre-compiled Xfractint package. Jonathan or Tim - can you reproduce the bug? Scott Boyd ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: XFractint 20.02.4 boundary tracing bug on 24-bit servers Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 00:29:43 +0300 From: George Tsegas <gtseg@skiathos.physics.auth.gr> To: sdboyd56@swbell.net Hello there. I recently downloaded the XFractint 20.02.4 binary from your web page. The "hit feature" of this release is, of course, its support for non-8-bit color depths, which is really convenient since there's no need any more to start a seperate 8-bit X-server in order to run xfractint correctly. I stumbled on one minor bug, though, that seems to be related to the 24-bit color depth support: using the "Boundary Tracing" drawing mode in some cases seems to lead to an infinite loop: XFractint seems to "freeze", drawing halts and the program only responds to <Ctrl>+C. The bug is reproducible by starting xfractint (on a 24-bit server), then choosing "Run saved command set" and selecting Peter Moreland's "Blue" command set from the file "fractint.par". It stops after only a small line segment is drawn on the top-left corner of the window. Same thing happens with other fractal types too, though not always. The exact same procedure does work correctly on an 8-bit server, on the same machine. Hardware: Athlon XP 1900+, 512MB DDR RAM (standard clocking) Gainward/NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4400 (standard clocking) Software: RedHat Linux 7.2 (+all the official RedHat updates) Kernel 2.4.9 glibc 2.2.4 XFree86 4.1.0, server running @ 1280x1024x24bit NVidia closed-source kernel module + GLX driver, ver. 1.0 29.60 KDE 2.2.2 ('official' RedHat packages) Thanks again for your effort. Please let me know if I should forward this bug report to somebody from the {X}fractint development team. -- George Tsegas gtseg@skiathos.physics.auth.gr "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon."