Thanks for your help, everyone. As suggested, I tried both the XFree86
supplied nv driver and the NVidia supplied one (version 1.0-1541), and
neither work. Andrew Aitchison seems to suggest that Pseudocolor apps
need to have the Pseudocolor visual as the default; does this means that
even if Pseudocolor was supported, these apps would not work unless the X
server was started at a depth of 8bpp? If this is the case, well...
Otherwise, as far as I can see, I have the following options:
1. Get a Matrox Card with the XFree86 driver. This is annoying, since we
already have a few machines running with NVidia cards, and also since I
have no idea if it really is going to work. If anyone has any experience
of running a PseudoColor app on a server running at 24 bpp on a Matrox
card, please let me know if it works, or if there are any issues I should
know about.
2. I heard something about a 'RandR extension', developped by Keith
Packard. I don't know very much about XFree86, so if someone can give me
some hints about whether it will do what I need, how stable it is, and how
to get it running, I would me most grateful.
3. Run a second X server at 8bpp. I understand this to mean: get another
graphics card & monitor, and run X at 8bpp on that. I have a monitor that
will switch between two inputs, so that might help. But it's still a
rather cumbersome options - especially as this software will be used by
people who have no clue when it comes to Unix.
4. Get involved in the development. I'm afraid I don't have either the
time or the experience to do this. Sorry...
If anyone can give me more info on the various options, that would be
really great.
Thanks,
Donald.
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