(possible duplication, if so, please forgive me). Pseudo-colors are still useful us in the scientific visualization world. At a minimum, some of our legacy apps written on SGIs need to be ported to the Linux world, but the lack of pseudo-color support, particularly 12-bit, is a very big problem. We need to at least to keep these crusty graphics on life- support while we replace them or rewrite them using real colors. We also believe that the use of pseudo-color will in fact continue to be useful for our purposes. I don't want to step into the middle of a holy-war here, trust me when I say that it will be very useful to many at least for some period of time to come as many people besides us are facing the same problem. They want to beginning porting existing apps to Linux, but porting apps written on old high-end workstations is a big problem, and it is ultimately traced to the X server, which makes it difficult for us to deal with. We are at the mercy of whomever is writing the standard X servers. NOTE: Nvidia does NOT offer drivers for Xi graphics X-server, this is a particularly brutal blow because we do not even have the option of a commercial server unless there is another one available that I'm not aware of. PLEASE add or continue to offer 12-bit psuedocolor support to your X server. In particular, we are using an Nvidia graphics card. Sorry I don't know the exact model, but it is very recent. humbly yours, Peter Bismuti
Please forward to Ed Eich and Roland Mainz
Egbert: How difficult would it be to port the current PseudoColor emulation support to the "nv" driver ?
Not very difficult I suppose. I worked on this stuff briefly last December. I'm still struggeling with creating a window for the overlay screen. Theme cursor supports has to have this. At the moment I don't have time to look into this.
Egbert Eich wrote: > Not very difficult I suppose. > I worked on this stuff briefly last December. I'm still struggeling with > creating a window for the overlay screen. Theme cursor supports has to have > this. What about turning the XCURSOR extension off (for the matching drivers if the PseudoColor emulation is active) for now until this part is working ? > At the moment I don't have time to look into this. Can anyone from Sun help here maybe ?
FWIW, NVIDIA's binary driver currently supports an emulated 8-bit pseudocolor overlay; search for the "CIOverlay" option in the NVIDIA README: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6629/README.txt It would be technically possible to alternatively provide a 12-bit overlay. 8-bit and 12-bit could not be available at the same time, because the mioverlay.c code in the X server only supports one overlay plane. Peter: I assume these are strictly X applications that require this (no OpenGL)?
No, it is primarily an OpenGL code used for scientific visualization. I've just inherited it and had hoped to port it without getting inside it. Given the various obstacles that we're facing, porting the code "as is" to the Linux machines we're using is unlikely. I'll have to get inside it. Not a big deal other than there's a deadline.
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Closing. If anyone still cares about this feature request, he can feel free to reopen it (and assign it to himself).
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