On 05/27/10 05:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
On most graphics cards you will have to choose to either have everything 8-bit or everything 24-bit, not mix both in the same session like some of the old SPARC graphics cards allowed.
NVIDIA Quadro cards with Xorg allow turning on color index transparent overlay (off by default). This advertises a 255 PseudoColor X visual in addition to 24 bit. However, when someone says "old old software" it typically wants the 8 bit visual to be the default, which causes lots of problems with recent desktop managers. Also, composite and XRandR are usually incompatible with transparent overlay. If you are lucky and the old old software searches for an 8 bit visual and can live with only 255 colors (and no composite or XRandR), transparent overlay may work. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
