[rhn-users] RE: rhn-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 22

[Wen Bian]

Thank you Dr. Schmidt, I tried what you said, it seems working to some 
extent.  Now if I set the "DefaultDepth" to 24 in the "screen" secion in 
"XF86Config", the program still can't find PseudoColor; if I set 
"DefaultDepth" to 8, it doesn't complain about PseudoColor anymore, but 
instead gives the following error message (the program display console can't 
come up):

---------------------------------
  X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for 
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  86 (X_AllocColorCells)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  381
  Current serial number in output stream:  381
---------------------------------

Any idea about that? Really appreciate your kind help!

Wen

>
>Dr. Gunter Schmidt wrote:
>
>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"
>
>
>>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!
>