Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] my system gives an error on ethereal startup

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 17:32:23 -0700
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:08:12PM -0600, Joseph_Burdick wrote:
> but when I start the program it throws an error box that reads:
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **. Palettized display (256-colour) mode not supported on Windows.
> aborting...		

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q4.19

> I tried turning the display down to 16 colors, but no help.

As noted, the problem is that 256 colors is too *few*, not that it's too
*many*.