On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm desperately trying to make some stupid design software export > it's display to my Linux desktop. I already learned that it needs an > 8 bit colorplane and according to the support it should be able to > handle also a 24+8 bit pseudocolor display. > I know this question has been asked several times before, but it was > never really answered in a applicable way. > In this newsgroup I read that I have to activate the overlay option > in order to make my Matrox Millenium G200 video card support this > mode, but when I do this my X doesn't come up any more (you can find > the .log file below).
> Do I have to enable an eight bit visual in pseudocolor mode? Option "Overlay" will do both for you. > XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.1.0-8) / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) > Release Date: xx August 2001 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is > newer than the above date, look for a newer version before > reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) > Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.9-13enterprise i686 [ELF] > Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com (You might wish to upgrade to XFree86 v4.2.0) > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) Matrox MGA G200 AGP rev 3, Mem @ 0xe3000000/24, 0xe2000000/14, >0xe1800000/23, BIOS @ 0xe2ff0000/16 > (**) MGA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 888 > (**) MGA(0): Option "Overlay" "" > (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag200" > (==) MGA(0): Using AGP 1x mode > (**) MGA(0): PseudoColor overlay enabled Looks good... > (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp ... that too. > (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+664: 2864 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] created "mga" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" > (II) MGA(0): [drm] added 4096 byte SAREA at 0xc88cf000 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc88cf000 to 0x4001c000 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe3000000 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel > (II) MGA(0): [agp] Mode 0x1f000201 [AGP 0x8086/0x7190; Card 0x102b/0x0521] > (II) MGA(0): [drm] Disabling AGP 2x PLL encoding > (II) MGA(0): [agp] 12288 kB allocated with handle 0xc98d2000 > (II) MGA(0): [agp] WARP microcode handle = 0xe4000000 > (II) MGA(0): [agp] WARP microcode mapped at 0x4001d000 > (II) MGA(0): [agp] Primary DMA handle = 0xe4008000 > (II) MGA(0): [agp] Primary DMA mapped at 0x419dd000 > (II) MGA(0): [agp] DMA buffers handle = 0xe4108000 > (II) MGA(0): [agp] DMA buffers mapped at 0x41add000 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] Added 128 65536 byte DMA buffers > (II) MGA(0): [drm] Registers handle = 0xe2000000 > (II) MGA(0): [drm] Status handle = 0xc98db000 > (II) MGA(0): [agp] Status page mapped at 0x40025000 > (II) MGA(0): [dri] visual configs initialized > No overlay visuals found! Hmm. At one time you couldn't have both 8+24 overlay and DRI. Looking at the source for 4.2.0 I can't see this restriction but it may still exist in your version. Try disabling DRI, and if that works, consider upgrading to 4.2.0. (If your app is particuarly brain-dead you may need to start the server with the 8bit visual as the default). -- 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
