[PATCH xserver v2] xf86cmap: Use old palette system for pseudocolour.

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:27:22 +0100
> From: Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>
> 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:00:13 +0100, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There are dynamic colormaps?
> >
> > Shocking, I know. Does seem like drivers should feel free to remove
> > non-TrueColor support at this point; it's clearly never used...
> 
> It would be nice to know if there are still users of these features.
> Otherwise it doesn't make much sense to do anything more than small
> fixes. I've come to expect unusual things of a system that is almost
> as old as i am (i was a baby when the first X11 was released and a
> small child when xfree86 came into existence), but this i really did
> not see coming. Fortunately these are the kind of things you can
> disable if they are really not used :)

It's not too long ago that I ran across an old X application that
insisted on a PseudoColor or DirectColor visual that I wanted to
display remotely on a Linux desktop which failed because only
TrueColor visuals were offered by the X server on that machine.  So I
do think that removing non-TrueColor support completely would be a
shame.