On Thu, 9 May 2002, Eric Jorgensen wrote:
>
> --- Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Eric Jorgensen wrote:
> >
> > > What about getting it to work in 24 bits? Is
> > there a
> > > way to get the behavior from version 3.3.6 in
> > current
> > > versions?
> >
> > I'm suspicious about that. HP never supported
> > 24bpp XImages.
> > If anything, I would expect it to work now, and not
> > before. I
> > think the advertising of 24bpp formats in XFree86
> > 3.3.6 was a
> > huge mistake. What problems do you get trying to
> > run it in
> > depth 24?
> >
>
> When I try to run it in 24 bit mode, the "colors are
> all wrong", that is, within Arc/Info raster image
> colors are distorted. Colors otherwise are normal.
>
> I took the video card out of the old working machine
> and put it in the new non-working machine. I've
> attached the XFree86 log files from when the X server
> starts up. If someone could please look at these and
> tell me what I need to set in the new -4 config file
> to "emulate" the behavior of the previous version in
> 24 bit mode, I would be incredibly appreciative. If
> not, word on why Xfree86 version 4 won't do what
> version 3 did would suffice.
>
I believe no other X-server in the world offered packed
24bpp XImages. Even in XFree86 3, they were only supported
on hardware that supported packed 24bpp framebuffers.
Many did not, including NVIDIA hardware. Drivers for
NVIDIA hardware would not have offered packed 24bpp
XImages in XFree86 3. An app that expected 24bpp XImage
in depth 24 would not have worked in any X-server except for
XFree86 3, and even then, only on some hardware. Such an
app would be broken by definition for making such an
assuption.
Mark.
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