FW: Now a XFree86 4.0 based X-server

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

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Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dakshinamurthy K [mailto:kd@blr.vsnl.net.in]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 2:12 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Subject: Re: Now a XFree86 4.0 based X-server
>
>
> Suhaib,
>
> The following mail is bounced off by the mailer-daemon. Could you please
> post it to the list?
>
> Regards
> KD
>
>
> Suhaib/Peter Busch,
>
> Congratulations.
>
> After the initial work on the DX-Server, I was unable to work on it again.
> It is nice to see a server, that too stable released.
>
> I have the few comments to be made on 16/24bpp mode in X-Server.
>
> 1. There is no pseudo-color mode supported for this color depths by DX. We
> need to use TrueColor.
> 2. The RGB values are stored in reverse order.
>
> With both these modifications 16/24bpp should be up in the
> server. I believe
> both exist in some colormap source files. If you need I can look at the
> sources and send them. I could make the DX-Server work at 16/24bpp with
> these modifications.
>
> Regards
> KD
>
>