On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Wojciech BIALAS wrote: >> XFree86 4.2.0 does not have a way of preventing RENDER from >> assimilating the 8 bit color map. This is a bug which makes 8bit >> depth mostly useless, however the reason it won't be fixed until >> 4.3.0 is basically that any application that demands 8bit depth >> is really broken as designed, and that there is a viable >> workaround of using 8+24 overlay on hardware that supports it, or >> possibly using Xnest. > >You were perfectly clear in your previous mail. This is why >I have down-graded XFree86 version from 4.2.0 to 4.1.0 on my >all Linux installations. Now , Cadence works OK unless I invoke >other color-hungry application before, which is perfectly normal. > >My reason for asking on tool to check how many colors were >taken from default colormap is that I want to find out >which part of KDE takes most of the colors. >(running with 4.1.0 XFree86 version). Ah ok.. I misunderstood your above comments, and was trying to clarify a bit better. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
