On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Matt Wilbur wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone know if there's plans to make pseudocolor visuals available in > > modes > 8 bit? We're saddled with some grotty old apps (saoimage, for > > one) that still work great, provided you display them to an X server that > > supports pseudocolor visuals in 24 bit mode... but that excludes XFree86 > > currently. IRIX's X server and Exceed7 on LoseNT boxes seem to do OK, and > > it looks like AccelX claims to, but we'd sure like to do this on XFree.. > > I don't know that there are any plans to hack this. It's not > worth the effort in my opinion. It's a mess and the problems are > with the apps, not the server. It's a TrueColor world.
Doesn't the RandR extension give us multiple simultaneous depths ? Matt, only a few drivers support it so far (check the archives for which ones). IIRC one of the generic drivers does work, so you can run the extendision on most cards, if you don't mind loosing acceleration. While I don't know of any plans, and I agree that the app is indeed the problem, I think the hack to implement PseudoColor on DirectColor should not be too hard - at depth 24 the two visuals are just different ways of interpreting the colormap. I have thought of adding this to xnest, so that it would be available to every driver, but not get in the way of ordinary users - once you use pseudocolor you will see why most people are better off without it. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
