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 business case for developing it > > in hardware. > > > > Assuming there was such a chip, there are no architectural barriers to > > supporting it in XFree86.. > > The fact that ExCeed 3D (which runs under Windows) can support it leads > me to believe that hardware support has little to do with it. Remember > that you can have a pseudocolor visual on a display that is physically > truecolor. It just means that the X-server has to remap everything. I > suspect the real reason is that nobody has ever wanted this support bad > enough to write a patch. :)
Solaris/Xsun and the X11R6.8.0 tree both have Pseudocolor emulation modes (Xsun actually supports emulated StaticGray/Grayscale/StaticColor/etc., too) ... Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
