On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: > On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 10:07 PM, Andy Goth wrote: > > > On Friday, June 27, 2003 7:45 am, Malcolm Stevens wrote: > >> On the same topic of 8+24 overlay, my ibook, when running Apple's X11, > >> provides 24 bit truecolor visuals and an 8 bit pseudocolor visual. > >> Does anyone know how this is done? If I remember correctly, the video > >> chip inside is an ATI Rage Mobility 128 and as far as I can tell ATI > >> chips don't have hardware overlay features. Does this mean Apple is > >> doing something in software? Their X11 is based on XFree86 4.2.1 but > >> I > >> think it's been modified quite a bit. > > > > Forgive me if I'm totally wrong... I haven't had an Apple in my house > > since > > the SE/30, so I'm just drawing on minimal observations. > > > > Maybe Photon allows different windows to have different color depths. > > Then a > > modified XFree86 would have an easier time doing the same. > > I don't follow. Is Photon what Apple calls Quartz? I was just curious > about it anyway. I believe some of the windows X11 emulators/servers > do pseudocolor stuff in software. The one I remember is from > hummingbird I think.
Photon is the name given by QNX to their own windowing system, it's nothing to do with Apple: http://www.qnx.com/products/ps_photon/ Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
