From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.goquest.com (ns1.goquest.com [12.18.108.6]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C92454829 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:39:42 -0600 (MDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael S.Zick To: "M. Grabert" , Thomas Bogendoerfer Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] color recovery Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:33:26 -0500 Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03041616332600.03921@wolf686> 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: On Wednesday 16 April 2003 12:59 pm, M. Grabert wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 01:28:43PM +0100, M. Grabert wrote: > > > My Precisionbook obviously has a Visualize-EG with just 2MB. > > > So it should be able to display at least 800x600 in 24/32bit and > > > 1024x768 in 16bit, but it refuses to do so. 'dmesg' ALWAYS shows > > > only 8bit colour depth regardless of the display resolution. > > > > Visualize-EG is 8 bit only. That's a hardware limitation. > > The manual says something different/strange ... the LCD actually supports > 16M colours, and so does the Visualize-EG (HP Graphitti). > > ... together with the fact that it just has 2MB onboard there is only > one possibility: they are referring to HP's color recovery technique. Yup. > > Is there ANY way that color recovery will be supported anytime in the > future? There has been a lot of mails on this list on this subject; sorry that I don't have the pointers handy, but... A search of the FAQ and the mailing list archive should lead you to how others have dealt with this problem - including getting 8-bit X to work on the machines. Also, somewhere on the site(s) are some special X config files. It isn't hopeless, just not pretty. Mike