Re: problem getting pseudocolor
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:24 -0500, Neil Smith wrote: CentOS 5.3 on dual-boot Apple Aluminum iMac with ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT card. If I specify in /etc/X11/xorg.conf a screen0 with depth 8, X11 can't start up, giving error of 'invalid depth = -1'. First off, is this video capable of 8 bit pseudocolor in the X11 shipped with CentOS 5.3 distro? I don't know what the specs are for this monitor ... like horz and vert refresh ranges, if that even matters in this situation. Does anyone have an example xorg.conf, or the relevant sections, to get pseudocolor on an Alu iMac? Thanks, -Neil We don't test/use pseudocolor much, i don't even know if it's supposed to work. Why do you want pseudocolor ? You should really stick with RGB32bits visual. Cheers, Jerome Glisse ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: problem getting pseudocolor
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, David Gerard wrote: 2009/9/2 Jerome Glisse gli...@freedesktop.org: We don't test/use pseudocolor much, i don't even know if it's supposed to work. Why do you want pseudocolor ? You should really stick with RGB32bits visual. I would guess: shitty, shitty vertical-market proprietary software that thinks it's 1990 and DEMANDS 8-bit colour, and won't run in 24-bit colour. I've encountered this stuff. Awful, awful. And occasionally necessary. Those who need that should consider working on http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4770 -- Earthling Michel Dänzer |http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: problem getting pseudocolor
2009/9/2 Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, David Gerard wrote: 2009/9/2 Jerome Glisse gli...@freedesktop.org: We don't test/use pseudocolor much, i don't even know if it's supposed to work. Why do you want pseudocolor ? You should really stick with RGB32bits visual. I would guess: shitty, shitty vertical-market proprietary software that thinks it's 1990 and DEMANDS 8-bit colour, and won't run in 24-bit colour. I've encountered this stuff. Awful, awful. And occasionally necessary. Those who need that should consider working on http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4770 Yeah, it's part of that 20 years' backward compatibility with horrible stuff problem, and dragging X11 kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century :-) Usually the vertical market software companies in question deal with it by certifying on a very narrow range of OSes, rather than e.g. filing or fixing bugs. Somewhat less than ideal. - d. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: problem getting pseudocolor
From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= mic...@daenzer.net Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:45:36 +0200 Sender: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, David Gerard wrote: 2009/9/2 Jerome Glisse gli...@freedesktop.org: ... DEMANDS 8-bit colour, and won't run in 24-bit colour. ... Those who need that should consider working on http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4770 Indeed. A four-year-old bug report (priority: High). Then we have: Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:09:49 +0100 From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Usually the vertical market software companies in question deal with it by certifying on a very narrow range of OSes, rather than e.g. filing or fixing bugs. Somewhat less than ideal. Yes, on both sides of the coin. And, Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:41:36 +0100 From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com I would guess: shitty, shitty ... Awful, awful. And occasionally necessary. Those tasked with maintaining old software that was written when 8-bit frame buffers were expensive, but which is still used in critical applications have the same lack-of-time and prioritization issues that X developers have. I'd think that a bit more charity could be shown to those also struggling in the trenches. Different trenches -- same struggle. - Pat ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
