PseudoColor emulation to support multiple visuals seems like a good thing to have when the vast majority of supported hardware does not support overlays and lots of users have a need (and the competitive solutions support it, too).
Why doesn't XFree86 support it? Is there some technical/strategic/political reason, or is it just a matter of nobody has gotten around to it yet? Jim Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jim Castleberry wrote: > > > I have a Dell PC with an "NVidia Riva Ultra 64 rev 21" in it. I want it to offer > > multiple visuals so I can run old apps that only support 8-bit PseudoColor and > > still let other apps that can handle more colors have them. > > > > Everything I've found on Xfree86.org and elsewhere says it ain't possible - > > multiple visuals can't be supported without hardware overlay and only a few > > Matrox and newer NVIDIA cards have it. > > The newest NVIDIA cards have TrueColor overlays, not PseudoColor. > > > > > But I have another Dell PC containing an "NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64" that's running > > Windows 2k and Hummingbird Exceed, and xdpyinfo confirms that it supports 2 > > visuals - 8-bit pseudocolor and 24-bit TrueColor. > > > > So what's up? Do these chips support overlay and only Hummingbird Exceed knows > > it, or is it actually possible to do multiple visuals without overlay? > > They emulate it. XFree86 doesn't support PseudoColor emulation. > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
