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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: [386BSD] xv cannot display gif/jpeg correctly Message-ID: <1992Nov9.072501.16945@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <1992Nov5.082106.2940@vbohub.vbo.dec.com> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:25:01 GMT Lines: 45 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. [text about working X clients, etc. deleted - NB.] So, it's not (just) you that did something wrong (except if you changed the code for xv - I am using version 2.21). It is more likely that the are problems in the mono Xserver. You should buy a 100 US$ SuperVGA board :-) Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt