From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FT5ZE-0004MN-DC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:13:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FT5ZD-0004M3-Dj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:13:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FT5ZD-0004M0-9j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:13:07 -0400 Received: from [193.7.176.20] (helo=bender.bawue.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1FT5dx-0002Mj-6O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:18:01 -0400 Received: from lagash (88-106-238-34.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [88.106.238.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bender.bawue.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F0D44A97 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:13:04 +0200 (MEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FT5Z1-0002nH-K8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:12:55 +0100 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:12:45 +0100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Updated BGR vs. RGB vga patch... Message-ID: <20060410231245.GA6564@networkno.de> References: <443A86FC.9010302@win4lin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <443A86FC.9010302@win4lin.com> From: Thiemo Seufer Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: > Hello, > > attached is an updated version (against today's CVS) of a patch to > enable B/G/R color encoding rather than R/G/B with the command-line > option -bgr. I found the original here (post by Martin Bochnig): > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-09/msg00059.html > > It's main intention is to deal with some 24-bit Sun/SPARC X servers, > including SunRays. But you can also mimic this behavior with a VNC > server if you want. > > Anyway, it may not be too interesting to most, but it is to me at the > moment, so I figured I'd share. To use it, you can pass in the -bgr > command line option to qemu. You can get some psychadelic colors if > you're really bored and want to try it on an R/G/B 24-bit X server, like > XFree86 or X.org :) FWIW, the SGI O2 has the same problem, I heard the Xorg server got fixed recently to take this into account. I don't know if the fix is O2 specific. Btw, wouldn't it be the right thing to add a Sun framebuffer emulation instead of fiddling with VGA? Or is the hardware in question actually VGA compatible? Thiemo