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From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
To: Nahkola Mikko <mikko.nahkola@nokia.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] framebuffer depth and other issues ...
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:15:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021028211514.GA4269@solo.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021028112551.GR15137@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com>

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:25:52PM +0200, Nahkola Mikko wrote:
> I was wondering ... the VIS-EG is about as close to "fully supported" as 
> they get, right?

there are still 2D drawing accelerations possible, hardware cursor,
color recovery and usage of the second color map.

> Is it possible to get more than 8 bpp out of a VIS-EG?

no, VIS-EG is 8 bit color, no way to get more.

> How much of a difference is there between VIS-EG/PCI (A4977A) and 
> VIS-EG/GSC (A4450A) in this regard? I have an A4450A in there at the 
> moment.

no difference in color depth between PCI and GSC cards.

> HP-UX seems to find a whole lot of differences and such ... and I did run 
> GNOME/HP-UX once on a VIS-EG/PCI without running out of colors but then 
> again HP-UX does color recovery and acceleration and all that on those...

I guess the HP-UX Xserver uses the second color map and color recovery.
I've looked a little bit how to use the second color map and I haven't
found a simple to way to add support to XFree for it. It's a nice way
to have 256 color for the desktop and 256 independant colors for the
application with focus. Maybe some XFree86 guru could give me a hint how
to implement it.

Thomas.

-- 
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a
good idea.                                 [ Alexander Viro on linux-kernel ]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-28 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-28 11:25 [parisc-linux] framebuffer depth and other issues Nahkola Mikko
2002-10-28 14:56 ` Carlos O'Donell
2002-10-28 21:15 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2002-10-29  0:49 ` Grant Grundler

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