[rhn-users] setting up PseudoColor visual

[Dr. Gunter Schmidt]

Wen Bian wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Could anyone please give me some advice on setting the display to 
> 8-bit PseudoColor (I'm trying to run a legacy program)? I'm running 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 on a DELL Precision 450n workstation 
> with DELL P1230 monitor and video card of 128MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 
> 1000.  Simply changing the "XF86Config" or using redhat-config-xfree86 
> doesn't work.. and if you know of any free software that provides 
> PseudoColor overlay mode over TrueColor etc, would you please let me 
> know also.. Thank you very much!

You need the XFree86 driver from Nvidia:

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run

In the included example XF86Config file you have to remove the comments
from the lines:


    Option "Overlay" "on"
    Option "CIOverlay" "on"
In the section "Screen"