This is up to the drivers. Currently, the only drivers which support simultaneous 8 and 24 plane rendering are ones that support HW overlays. These include drivers for some Matrox cards, some 3Dlabs cards (I think), and NVIDIA's binary Linux drivers support them for some of their Quadro line of cards. Mark. On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Pearson, Paul L-Baker Atlas wrote: > We have an application that requires the 8 plane PseudoColor Visual to > run. We have required our Solaris and HP-UX customers to configure their > systems as 8 plane systems to support our application. I am porting the > application to Linux (Red Hat) and would like to run on the > out-of-the-box configuration. When X is configured for an 8 planes there > are not enough colors (KDE seems to consume a rather large amount of > colors). So I added code to request the 8 plane PseudoColor Visual from > the X server. This works fine on Solaris, HP-UX and Exceed - when those > servers are configured for 24 planes, they provide the 8 plane Visual as > an option. When XFree86 is configured for 24 planes - only the 24 plane > Visuals are offered. > > > > Can I set the XF86Config file up to offer 8 plane Visuals in addition to > the 24 plane Visuals? I've been playing with the Visual filed under the > Display subsection, but I can't get anything to change. Xdpyinfo shows 8 > visuals - 4 identical 24 plane TrueColor and 4 identical 24 plane > DirectColor. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul Pearson > > (281) 646-2750 > > > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
