Bug#163935: xdm does not start / crashes
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 21:22, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:38:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > Since I do not think there is a way to tell the X server to disable the
> > RENDER extension or pre-allocate a smaller colormap, the best solution
> > probably is to just give depth 8 users a black-and-white logo.
>
> This solves the xdm start problem but does not solve the other problems
> I have mentioned - with XFree 4.2 many applications are just unusable
> on an 8bit display as they e.g. do not render menus legibly, or in some
> constellations even the text in a terminal emulator is not legible
> anymore. The same applications work fine on the same hardware with the
> xserver from XFree86 4.1.0.
>
> Antialiasing does IMHO not really make sense on 8bit displays,
I think it's amazing how well the render extension works at depth 8, but
I can see people not caring about it.
> so I sincerely propose to either provide a configuration option for disabling
> the render extension or, if that is not possible, to disable it for 8bit
> displays in general.
Seeing as this should no longer be an issue with 4.3.0, or at least it
offers workarounds, it doesn't seem worth putting any effort about this
into 4.2.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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