Hiroo ONO writes:

>I think Acrobat Reader is one of the X application which need that the
>screen depth is power of two. So you should start X server at the
>depth of 16 or 32, etc.

acroread usually "works" in 24-bit, the thing with it crashing often
is more likely due to the fact that it's even lower quality software
than netscape and is full of ugly bugs.

--mkb