Re: Backing Store not working in 8 Bit color depth with vesa driver

2011-09-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 12:52 -0400, James Cloos wrote: IIRC, the current server code requires that one use a compositing manager to do backing store. It has beena while since this last come up, though. I may be mis- remembering. You are. Backing store was rewritten to use the composite

Re: Backing Store not working in 8 Bit color depth with vesa driver

2011-09-20 Thread Patrick O'Donnell
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:49:30 -0500 From: Doug Kuvaas doug.kuv...@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Patrick O'Donnell p...@ascent.com wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:20:12 -0500 From: Doug Kuvaas doug.kuv...@gmail.com I posted to this list earlier about not getting color in 8 bit

Re: Backing Store not working in 8 Bit color depth with vesa driver

2011-09-20 Thread James Cloos
MD == Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net writes: JC It has beena while since this last come up, though. I may be JC misremembering. MD You are. Backing store was rewritten to use the composite layer, MD but that doesn't require a compositing manager. Ah. Good to know. Thanks. -JimC -- James

Re: Issues running Xorg in 8 bit color mode:q

2011-09-20 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:00 -0500, Doug Kuvaas wrote: When I was looking into getting the Nvidia proprietary driver working, I found that the nomodeset kernel flag had to be set for the driver to work properly. Once I did that, the vesa driver did work. I've got the 8 bit color working,