From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonino Daplas Subject: Re: LCD scaling type Date: 11 Jan 2003 21:27:35 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1042291653.1389.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from willow.compass.com.ph ([202.70.96.38]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18XLpa-0004N6-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 05:37:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Fbdev development list On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:29, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On 11 Jan 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote: > > I also have a couple of things that come to mind (like switching from > > truecolor to directcolor and vice versa without rebooting). I currently > > use var->nonstd which is probably not the the right thing to do. > > Since directcolor is a superset of truecolor, shouldn't a driver always use > directcolor, if the hardware supports it? > Some apps don't know how to treat directcolor. DirectFB-0.9.15 is messed up when visual is in directcolor, so I need truecolor here. I submitted a patch to them so it should get fixed with their next release. However, when I go to X, I want it to be in directcolor, for gamma utilities to work Tony ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com