The work around for this is to run a VNC server and viewer. VNC can run in
8-bit mode.
You then point you pseudocolor app at :1.0 and your true color apps at :0.0
The other option is to run on Solaris.
Dr Andrew C Aitchison
<A.C.Aitchison@dpmms. To: Bruce Kall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cam.ac.uk> cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: Subject: Re: [Xpert]PseudoColor
Visual in 24 bit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DefaultDepth 24
rg
11/15/2001 11:11 AM
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Bruce Kall wrote:
> How can I get XFree to offer me a PseudoColor 8bit visual
> when I startup X with a DefaultDepth of 24? On my Sun,
> it will offer a PseudoColor visual when in 24 bit mode,
> but XFree (at least by default) on my RH7.1 box
> does not offer a PseudoColor
> visual when you start up in 16, 24 or 32 bit DefaultDepth.
>
> (Note: This is so I can run an older application that will
> only run under a PseudoColor visual). I'm running 4.0.3.
Have you looked in the archives ?
If you have a Matrox card (or a 3Dlabs Oxygen, or a #99 card)
use the "Overlay" option in the device section of your config file.
If not you can't. I have half an idea how to implement 8bit Pseudo
on most 24bit cards, but I'm not even going to start looking at it
until 4.2.0 is out.
--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS,
Cambridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
_______________________________________________
Xpert mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
_______________________________________________
Xpert mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
