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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news 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> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au 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 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------