nvidia card pseudo color dell percision 390 Linux RH 4

[Bob Flynn (bobf)]

Hi,

I have the following hardware

Dell Percision 390

I am attempting to run this with pseudo color enabled and as the default
visual ( for a specific application requirement ).

I have the following;


/proc/driver/nvidia/cards
HOME> more 0
Model:           Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI
IRQ:             169
Video BIOS:      05.41.02.50.05
Card Type:       PCI-E
DMA Size:        39 bits
DMA Mask:        0x7fffffffff

/proc/driver/nvidia/cards

HOME> more version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8756  Wed Mar 29
14:26:26 PST
2006
GCC version:  gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)
HOME> rpm -qa | grep nvidia
dell-nvidia-8756-5dkms

that's the hardware and linux ( Distribution RH E WS 4 U4 )

so next is X configuration.

There are two files here xorg.conf and gdm.conf

The relevant sections ( I think are );

>From xorg.cong ) The CIOoverlay may not be required ?

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA PCI-Express Quadro FX 3450"
        Option      "Overlay" "boolean"
        Option "CIOverlay" "boolean"
EndSection

And from gdm.conf

# Definition of the standard X server.
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -cc 4 -audit 0
flexible=true

my problem is that X starts, but when I query the visual planes, I don't
see pseudo color.

So if I do xdpyinfo

I see

HOME> grep class xdpyinfo | sort | uniq
    class:    DirectColor
    class:    TrueColor

HOME> more xdpyinfo | grep depth | sort | uniq
    depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
    depth:    24 planes
    depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
    depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
  depth of root window:    24 planes
  depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32

So it seems so support the depth ( 8 bit ), but not the class ( pseudo
color ). Is there something else I should be doing to enable this ?

-Bob


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