SUNWspci 1.3 and Linux X server

Has anyone managed to get this working remotely? By transferring the
F3bitmaps to my local font server (or by using xset to point to the
Solaris font server) it no longer moans about fonts. The start window
appears but then it aborts and core dumps...

% sunpci
Opening a SunPCi window...

% No suitable visual for SMI code to use
Segmentation Fault - core dumped

It works perfectly adequately displaying locally (Win98) but fails on
remote display.

Sun: Solaris 8, SUNWpci 1.3
Linux: RedHat 6.2

There is a bug report on sunsolve with a similar description, but it's
been marked closed with no resolution or work around listed :-(

rgds
Stephen

[689 byte] By [CodeProf.com] at [2007-12-24 20:00:00]