On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Colin Aspin wrote: > I've a Linux system, RH7.3 and NEC 18" flat panel monitor. Video card > is Rage 128 Pro. > How can I run the video in 24 bit truecolor but have pseudo 8-bit over > this. I have an 8-bit > application that run in pseudo 8-bit mode on top of 24 bit display on a > SUN Ultra but I can't > figure out how to do this with the Rage/Linux box.
Unless you can get a card which supports the "overlay" option (of the mainstream vendors, that means any Matrox card) my best advice would be to look at VNC, which I have heard can present an 8bit visual to a client on a 24bit display. Otherwise, this feature isn't yet available in XFree86. So far 8+24 is only available on cards which support this in hardware. For hardware which supports 24bit DirectColor visuals (24bit TrueColor is not enough) we can in principle do 8+24 in software. As originally planned the RandR extension would do this, but implementation of this part hasn't happened yet, and it was decided to release RandR version 1 without it. I am slowly working on 8+24 software support, r128 is one of the drivers I'm testing with, but I don't have anything ready for testing yet, and I don't get a lot of time to work on it. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
