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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] xv cannot display gif/jpeg correctly
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.130717.15838@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <1992Nov5.082106.2940@vbohub.vbo.dec.com> <1992Nov9.072501.16945@autelca.ascom.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:07:17 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Nov9.072501.16945@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes:
- >pederiva@cobolt.enet.dec.com (Pascal Pederiva) writes:
- >
- >
- >> Hi,
- >
- >> I am using the binary XFree86 from agate and various versions of xv ( bin &
- >> src ). As I haven't got a SuperVGA card yet, I am stuck with B/W 800x600.
- >This is the virtual 800x600 mode, right. Physical 640x480 resolution.
- >If you are referring to a different mode, ignore the rest of the reply.
- >
- >> However, when I start 'xv' , it's title picture looks a little strange :
- >Yup.
- >
- >> Longwords byte ordering is the wrong way round as well as the bit ordering
- >> within the single bytes. That way you get vertical stripes divided into
- >> four smaller stripes.
- >The xv dialog boxes, etc. were OK for me.
- >> Loaded pictures look just the same way.
- >Yup.
- >
- >> Has anybody observed the same problem already ? Ist it me who's doing
- >> something wrong ?
- >Yes. I did observe the same problem. The Mono Xserver works fine, except for
- >"xv" (and maybe a lot of other clients which I didn't compile and test).
- >The problem went away immediately, as soon as I changed to the colour Xserver
- >(X386), though. Now, two sources (at least) of this problem come to mind:
- > 1. xv is not suited for monochrome servers (which I doubt, because
- > I have it running on a monchrome SUN - the same code that is)
- > 2. the Xmono server has problems with certain types of clients which
- > is more likely. Although I could run the "xdl" tool just fine
- > with the mono server.
-
- The problem is definitely in the mono server (and will be fixed in the
- next release). There were some bad hacks in the 1.1 version of the
- mono server -- and these have now been fixed.
-
- David
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