I was testing on ppc (G5 with 64-bit kernel, 32-bit userland), and dbedizzy doesn't work at all. $ xdbedizzy xdbedizzy: Couldn't get color: black Portage 2.1_rc1-r2 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.0/32bit-userland/970/pmac, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.17-rc3-g8ab12811-dirty ppc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-rc3-g8ab12811-dirty ppc64 PPC970MP, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -mtune=970 -mcpu=970 -mabi=altivec -maltivec -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -mtune=970 -mcpu=970 -mabi=altivec -maltivec -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect confcache cvs digest distlocks distlockss metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j7" PKGDIR="/home/gentoo/packages/buck-int" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" PORTDIR="/devel/gentoo-cvs/gentoo-x86" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="" USE="ppc X a52 aac aalib acl aio alsa altivec amd apache2 apm ares async automount berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdb cdda cdr cgi cjk clamav clearpasswd cli crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers daap divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dynagraph emboss encode ethereal examples exif expat f77 fam fame fastcgi ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran fpx frxp gcc64 gd gdbm geoip gif glitz glx gmp gnokii gnults gnuplot gnutls gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gzip hpn ical ieee1394 imap imlib innodb insecure-savers ipalias ipod ipv6 irda isdnlog jbig joystick jpeg jpeg2k lcms ldap libwww lirc live logitech-mouse lzo mad maildir mbox mcal md5sum mikmod mjpeg mod motif mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork multicall musicbrainz mysql ncurses network nptl nptlonly numeric offensive ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl osd ospfapi pam pcap pcre pdf pdflib perl plotutils png pnp postgres ppds pppd python qmail quicktime quotas rdesktop readline reflection rtc ruby samba scanner screen sdl session shout skins slang slp sms snmp socks5 speex spell spl sqlite ssl stream svg swat syslog t1lib tcltk tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev ungif unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vidix vlm vorbis winbind wmf wxwindows xanim xcomposite xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_dmc input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_void kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_v4l" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Oh, and it works fine on ~x86.
Sounds like the RGB database is set up wrong. Do you have RgbPath in your xorg.conf? If so, point it to /usr/share/X11/rgb or delete it entirely, see whether that helps.
Ok, that solved it completely. This config was generated by Xorgautoconfig entirely, so it probably needs to be fixed to generate a correct RgbPath. It generates: RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" And needs to be changed to: RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" or left out.
This is fixed in Xorgautoconfig-0.2.4
