> In the meantime, I found that the free r500 driver, which the SL live dvd > uses for my machine, is nearly good enough for my purposes. The only > problem is that I can't get it to give me a pseudocolor visual. With the > proprietary driver, I put a line > > Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "on" > > in the device section of xorg.conf, but that doesn't seem to work for r500. > > Does anyone know whether it's possible to get a pseudocolor visual with > the free driver?
Stephen -- I have no experience with the ATI r500 driver, but with the ATI "radeon" default driver in SL (and using Radeon 7000 or 7500 model video cards), I have been routinely successful in configuring Xorg with PseudoColor video on my second display (Screen 1) while using TrueColor on my primary display (Screen 0). Nothing unusual or unique is necessary in the Device section of xorg.conf. In the Screen section of xorg.conf, I simply do the following: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen1" > Device "Videocard1" > Monitor "Monitor1" > DefaultDepth 8 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 8 > Modes "1920x1080" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1920x1080" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection where obviously the key statements are "DefaultDepth 8" and the "Depth 8" subsection Display. Does your xorg.conf already include the analogous statements, in addition to the Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "on" you cited as being necessary with the proprietary driver ? The above depth 8 -related statements alone do the trick for me with the default radeon driver in SL appropriate for my ATI Radeon 7000 or 7500 video boards. Hope this helps, -- Jim
