Hello All, First, I would like to appologize to all of you if this question was already brought up. Unfortunately, search engine for some reasons did not work. I work with Cadence Design IC package on Solaris 7 (and 8) while having display on my RH7.3 box . This application for historical reasons is requireing pseudocolor 8plane visual. Since, support of 8+24 on xfree86 is limited to some ATI and Matrox cards , I am forced to use '-depth 8' . Display looks crappy , but can live with it. Recently I have upgraded from RH7.2 (X-> 4.1.0) to RH7.3 (X->4.2.0). From that point I can not prevent my application from colormap flashing. To test what is the origin of the problem I have tried verious Xserver configs (always 8 bbp ) . with simplest WM : fvwm2 (or even twm) configured to 'use' as low colors as possible. On application side (on Solaris) I have carefuly set options to 'be nice to colormap' . I have tested that on Sun stations displays that can do ONLY 8 bit plane , the application + WM (fvwm2) behavles OK . I have tested this problem on various Linux boxes RH 7.1,7.2,7.3 and Slackware 8.0 with different graphics hardware. Manualy starting 'X" and twm or fvwm2 with simplest cfg and my conclusion is : 1) if Xfree86 is =< 4.1.0 , there is no problem at all. 2) the problem can by easly reproduced with Xfree86 4.2.0 and quite common tool like 'xfig' while in 8 bpp mode (even with 'twm' WM ). Even if I tell 'xfig' to use limited number of colors. Forcing 'xfig' to not install private colormap ends with program in 'failsafe' monochrome mode... 3) Looks like colormap entries 'are grabbed' at the moment of WM (even twm) invocation. My questions are : 1) Does anyone have seen this problem before ? If yes then : WHAT IS THE CURE (if any..) ? 2) Can it be related with lack of PEX support in 4.2.0 ? 3) If I want to go for '8+24' option what hardware (ATI or Matrox ?) should I buy and how can I enable that mode ? (the XFree86 documantation is weak here...) thanks in advance for your help , Wojciech dr. Wojciech BIALAS , CERN, Geneva <Wojciech.Bialas@cern.ch> _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
