On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Matt Wilbur wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know if there's plans to make pseudocolor visuals available in
> modes > 8 bit? We're saddled with some grotty old apps (saoimage, for
> one) that still work great, provided you display them to an X server that
> supports pseudocolor visuals in 24 bit mode... but that excludes XFree86
> currently. IRIX's X server and Exceed7 on LoseNT boxes seem to do OK, and
> it looks like AccelX claims to, but we'd sure like to do this on XFree..
I don't know that there are any plans to hack this. It's not
worth the effort in my opinion. It's a mess and the problems are
with the apps, not the server. It's a TrueColor world.
You'd be better off using hardware that can do this. The Matrox
drivers (using XFree86's code, not Matrox's HAL module) support
simultaneous depth 24 and depth 8 in hardware.
Mark.
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