Re: Solaris Render and 32-bit pixmaps?

[Erwann Chénedé <erwann chenede sun com>]

Hi Greg,

Greg Hudson wrote:

> I've built GNOME 2.2 from source on Solaris 9, and have found that
> programs won't generally run on my test machine; they get "BadValue" X
> errors trying to create 32-bit pixmaps.
>
> I believe that is because the machine has a somewhat lame frame buffer
> ("ATI PGX PCI 8-bit [m64]") which only supports a bit depth of 24.
> Based on the discussion in
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88662>, it would appear
> that the X server is violating the spec by claiming to support the
> Render extension without supporting 32-bit pixmaps.
>
> Have other people run into this problem?  Are there known workarounds
> other than rebuilding without Xrender?  (That's next on my list to
> try; I hope I can build it that way successfully and that performance
> is acceptable.)
   No, I'm not aware of any workaround for this problem. The first version
   of Render for Xsun didn't implement the spec fully (e.g. not 32 
pixmaps).
   This has been "fixed" by not advertising the Render extension for 
framebuffer
   that do not support this format.
   Atm there is an effort in Sun to add 32-bit pix support for most 
Sun's framebuffer
   DDX.
  
   So hopefully Render will work properly on most Sun Framebuffer soon :)

      HTH,

            Erwann


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