[plug] XFree86 and 8 bit Visuals

[Russell Steicke]

Does anyone here know how to get xfree86 to report 8 bit PseudoColor
Visuals when in 24 bit TrueColor mode?

I'm involved in an effort to get linux boxes to replace xterms here
where I work, and the current show stopper is that when running with 24
bits of colour, xfree86 does not report any 8 bit "visual"s.  Other X
servers will do that, eg the IBM AIX servers we have on various boxes
here.  We have some old apps that refuse to run without 8 bits.  I'm
going around in circles trying to find out if this is fixable, and was
wondering if anyone else here had had and solved this problem?

Yes, I know we can start XFree86 in 8 bit mode and run everything like
that, but that's not really an option... :)




-- 
Russell Steicke

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