From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from elvis.franken.de (elvis.franken.de [193.175.24.41]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07004829 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:18:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:15:14 +0100 To: Nahkola Mikko Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] framebuffer depth and other issues ... Message-ID: <20021028211514.GA4269@solo.franken.de> References: <20021028112551.GR15137@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20021028112551.GR15137@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer) 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 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 ]