set root/default visual ID

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/4/07, Jacob Lambrecht <omegaxavier at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro and I am trying to set the root visual ID to be double duffered (0x27). The default right now is 0x23. How can I force the root window to use 0x27?
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> In the man page for xorg.conf I found the "Visual" option that I can put in the display section. However it seems to only support "TrueColor" or "DirectColor" and I am unable to specify an exact visual ID (I tried "0x27").
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

I had a patch a while back to default the r128 driver to double
buffered visuals.  It's pretty trivial, just reverse the order the
visuals are filled in in r128_dri.c
change:
         for (db = 0; db <= R128_USE_DB; db++) {
to:
         for (db = R128_USE_DB; db >= 0; db--) {

Alex

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> Jacob
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