> I have Blackbox compiled for AIX 4.3.3. Thanks to Todd Cohen for his
> successful compile on AIX 4.2. It made the compile simple. Anyway I
> noticed Blackbox will not startup with 24-bit Directcolor mode? It just
> prints a message unsupported visual. 24-bit Truecolor works fine. Can
> 24-bit Directcolor mode support be added?
>
> Are any other UNIX users running (or tried) Blackblox with 24-bit
> Directcolor?
I'm currently running blackbox on AIX 4.3.3.0 here. I tried the DirectColor mode too:
$xinit -- -x dbe -x abx -x GLX -layer 0 -d 24 -cc TrueColor
and got the same error:
BScreen::BScreen: managing screen 0 using visual 0x29, depth 24
BImageControl::BImageControl: unsupported visual 5
>From the AIX Command Reference:
>
>-cc VisualType[:Display]
>
> Specifies the type of visual to use for the root window of the screen
>specified by the display name. Not all visual types are available on all adapters at
>all depths. The :Display parameter is optional, but useful when using the multihead
>option. The :Display parameter is the name of the display as shown in the lsdisp
>command. If no display number or name is supplied, the specified visual is selected
>for all screens.
>
> To specify the visual type and depth for the default visual, use the -cc and
>-d flags, respectively.
>
> Values for the VisualType parameter are specified as a string or a number as
>follows:
>
> String Numeric equivalent
> StaticGray 0
> GrayScale 1
> StaticColor 2
> PseudoColor 3
> TrueColor 4
> DirectColor 5
Now I use the same command above except -cc TrueColor, as I assume you do, and it
works just fine.
Maybe someone is a little more versed in X color depths?
-Michael Perigard
UNIX Support
Gulfstream Aerospace
