Hi everyone, I have a few questions about XF86 I hope you can answer. I run FreeBSD 4.5-Release on a Matrox G400 16MB with a VIA chipset motherboard.
I have used both Matrox beta and XFree86 4.2.0 drivers (with and without HAL). Ok here we go... 1. Is it possible have both Overlay and DRI enabled? I tried but it said no overlay screen found. However, it is okay if I don't load DRI module. 2. When I get Overlay enabled, it showed only 256 colours. Why? I have DefaultDepth 24 and DefaultFbBPP 32. If I don't enable Overlay it shows true colour. 3. How do I tell if X is running at 24bit or 32bit colour? (on G400 32bit is faster than 24bit, isn't it?) 4. What is this PseudoColor thing and how does it affect my Overlay? 5. Is there a way to change colour depth on the fly? Like Ctrl-Alt-+ to change resolution. I have looked at the man pages but couldn't find a command for this purpose. 6. The reason I want to have Overlay enabled is that... it is too bloody slow to even watch a 320x240 mpeg since the video is not on Overlay! I can tell there is no overlay because of the colour (gamma doesn't apply to overlay). But even I have Option "Overlay", the KDE video players doesn't seem to pick it up. It is not like MS Windows where every video played would automatically put on overlay. What did I do wrong? Is there certain procedure I have to follow? Other than those, my G400, FreeBSD, XFree86 and KDE3 is very healthy. I hope you can answer my questions. Thank you very much. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
