From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tentakel.fischlustig.de (pD9001DC4.dip.t-dialin.net [217.0.29.196]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534FD482A for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 02:28:03 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Graphics support From: andi To: Jbit of Plasma Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: <3C5A3139.20006@yahoo.com> References: <3765AD6E3C88D211A92400A0C9A4F70E0119D735@lawrence.psl-dist.co.uk> <20020131180403.86D6F482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> <3C5A3139.20006@yahoo.com> Date: 01 Feb 2002 10:24:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1012555492.683.7.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > Sorry to ask, but I couldn't seem to find any docs on it, whats "Colour recovery"? Color recovery is a strange but cool 8bit truecolor technology. Data is dithered to the framebuffer in a special way (there is a recommented alogorithm provided by HP). Then the hardware de-dithers it and you really see millions of different colors on the screen. Using X11 the application needs to support it (ImageMagick is the only one I know). NextStep 3.3 supports color recovery globally and the applications do not need to have special support, it just works and looks nearly like true color. The advantage is that you can save video ram and blitting is very fast because of the small amount of data. andi