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From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:31:36 MET-1
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Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: Xfree86-4.0.1, Lombard, Mach64 driver
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        Jon Erick Ween <jween@som.llu.edu>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
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On 29 Sep 00 at 13:05, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> The main thing we need to be careful about is that the xor mask is different
> for truecolor and directcolor visuals: truecolor needs an `all ones' mask,
> while directcolor needs `15' for each color component (drivers that incorrectly
> report a directcolor instead of truecolor visual will easily be identified).

What about killing directcolor completely, and using directcolor capable
hardware as truecolor one with per-fb global gamma correction table?
(as windows do...)

List of modified files is shorter then ;-)
                                                        Petr


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