On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:08:08AM -0800, Hello World wrote: > I have a Diamond FireGL1 graphic card, which uses an IBM 256-bit > graphics rasterizer chipset. My Linux is Red Hat 7.2 with XFree86 4.1.0, > and I had to use a graphic card driver from ATI website to get X work. > Now I want to remotely run some application (on Sun Solaris machines), > which requires pseudocolor visual. So my questions are: > 1) How can I configure XFree86 to enable pseudocolor overlay in a > truecolor X session? (sorry, I couldn't find the answer on XFree86.org) > 2) Is FireGL1 supported for this purpose? I tried to startx with 8bit > color depth and it failed. But from the card specifications in User's > Guide it seems it may be capable: > Overlay: 24-bit Z- buffer, 4-bit double-buffer, 8-bit single-buffer > Graphics Modes: 1280x1024, color bits 24, alpha bits 8, line frequency > 75.0 93.8 106.3, refresh rate 60 75 85 > 3) Also can someone recommend a good reference to X windows basics? > All these questions need answering by ATI I'm afraid. It's their driver.
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