[B2-devel] Visuals?

[Brian J. <bjj...@us...>]

X wizards,

Knowing next to nil about X programming I'm a bit out of my league
here, but it looks like the new video depth support code always uses
the X display's default visual, with a corresponding pixmap depth and
layout.  That seems suboptimal for X servers like SGI's, which support
dozens of visuals at many depths (see bug 217330 for a complete list:
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=217330&group_id=2123&atid=102123
It's a bit long to include here.)

Could BII be made to choose the visual with the lowest depth greater
than or equal to the requested Mac screen depth?  I'd think that would
cut down drastically on the amount of data movement needed, especially
when running in Mac 8-bit mode using the raw copy blitter.

BTW, the on-the-fly depth and resolution switching really rocks!  I
can play Maelstorm and Continuum just as well as on a real Mac.  Now I
have to get volume support into the Irix sound driver so I don't
distract my coworkers....

						Brian

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