RE: DX Xserver

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Sorry for the confusion the way I worded this question. I
> am developing
> the DX Server on a NT machine with SiS 6326 video card
> which supports
> 8/16/24 bpp. Since the DX Server is also based on a frame
> buffer, I was
> looking at xfree86 sources to find how to use 24 bit, but
> could not find
> anywhere. The X-consortium's sample server supports
> 8/16/32 bit using
> the cfb, cfb16 and cfb32 drivers.

Have a look at xc/prgrams/Xserver/cfb24 in XFree86 3.9.16.  The
source for of 3.9.16 is available from ft.xfree86.org
and cygwin patches from ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree


>
> Suhaib, I could not get time to cleanup the sources to
> create a patch (a
> compilation of the whole tree takes > 30mins on my
> machine). I will
> release the source during this weekend.

Look forward to it.  I think your patches could be merged into
XFree86 4.0 Snapshots.  Xfree86.40 support 8/16/24/32 bits using
cfb, cfb16, cfb24 and cfb32


>
> Meanwhile, I found the causes of the problems I reported earlier.
>
> 1. Solaris: the problem is with xset fp+ <fontserver> in
> the xdm setup.
> The fc client code need to be cleaned up.
> 2. KDE: the problem is to do with an entry in .kderc
> (background=<colorcode>. Looks like this is used in some palette
> mapping.
>

Cool!!!

Regards
Suhaib

> Regards
> KD
>
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > FBDev is a simple frame buffer server.  I am not sure it can
> > 24 bit.  Also FBDev is Linux specific and needs linux kenernel
> > headers to compile.
> >
> > What happen to your DX server based upon xvfb?
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of
> > > Dakshinamurthy Karra
> > > Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 2:44 AM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > Subject: DX Xserver
> > >
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > Could any one confirm whether FBDev X Server can support
> > > 24bpp. I was
> > > struggling to get the X Server to run at 24bpp (works
> > > fine in 8/16/32bpp) :-(
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > KD
> > >
>