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RE: How to change visual class


> > Hello, > > When I started a program on a remote IRIX server with Win95 > OSR2/DXWin32, the program complained: > > 'cannot get visual class PseudoColor' > 'visual class TrueColor not supported' > > and exit. Running DXWin32 with '-cc 3' option caused 'Couldn't add > screen' error and changing the display property of Win95 to 8bit color > didn't affect the visual class... > > Is there a way to change the visual class of the server ? > > Thank you. That is because you are attempting to run an OpenGL client? If you run xdpyinfo, you would the information on what is supported on X. Unfortunately, we do not have GLX extension for DXWin32. The support for OpenGL/GLX for XWin server is in progress. Our servers are DirectX based therefore we need to sort out some display problems with GLX extensions on DirectX based X-server (XWin). The GLX extension would not be supported on DXWin32. Suhaib >
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