Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-02 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Bussoletti, John E wrote: Examination of the output of xdpyinfo in the SGI machines shows that the SGI X drivers support Pseudocolor visuals at both 8 bit planes and 12 bit planes. Similar output under Linux shows support for Pseudocolor Visuals at only 8 bit planes.

Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Bussoletti, John E wrote: At Boeing we have a number of graphics applications that have been developed in-house, originally for various SGI platforms. These applications are used for engineering visualization They work well on the native hardware and even display well

Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-02 Thread Tim Roberts
Mark Vojkovich wrote: ...Some hardware support 8 bit PseudoColor overlays now but I expect this to go the way of the dodo. My impression is that a future Microsoft operating system will not support 8 bit PseudoColor modes nor will it support overlays so eventually these will disappear from the

Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-01 Thread Bussoletti, John E
Title: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86? At Boeing we have a number of graphics applications that have been developed in-house, originally for various SGI platforms. These applications are used for engineering visualization They work well on the native hardware and even display well

Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-01 Thread Tim Roberts
Title: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86? Bussoletti, John E wrote: At Boeing we have a number of graphics applications that have been developed in-house, originally for various SGI platforms. These applications are used for engineering visualization They work well

RE: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-01 Thread Bussoletti, John E
a contract with Hummingbird... John Bussoletti -Original Message-From: Tim Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 4:24 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?Bussoletti, John E wrote: At Boeing we

Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-01 Thread Ian Romanick
Bussoletti, John E wrote: At Boeing we have a number of graphics applications that have been developed in-house, originally for various SGI platforms. These applications are used for engineering visualization They work well on the native hardware and even display well across the network using

Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:24:12 -0800 Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: The problem is not XFree86, the problem is technology. I'm not aware of ANY commodity graphics chips that support a 12-bit palettized video display mode. That's mostly because Windows doesn't handle it,

Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Ian Romanick wrote: Tim Roberts wrote: The problem is not XFree86, the problem is technology. I'm not aware of ANY commodity graphics chips that support a 12-bit palettized video display mode. That's mostly because Windows doesn't handle it, and if Windows doesn't handle it, there is no

RE: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-01 Thread Bussoletti, John E
, November 01, 2004 4:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Wollen, Douglas B; Jorstad, Ralph G Subject: Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86? Bussoletti, John E wrote: At Boeing we have a number of graphics applications that have been developed in-house, originally for various SGI platforms