>I don't know who our XFree86 rep is, but what are the chances someone could
>come up with the requisite patches to make this work in the near future?  I
>get lost in that jungle of code.

I know it _seems_ like a huge pile of code ... but this problem sounds like
a very small segement (all centered around the dynamic loading stuff).
I discovered that with the colormap stuff, a few hours of grep(1)ing around
got to the root of the problem in fairly small order.

--Ken