From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:43:13 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Michel Dänzer cc: Andreas Hundt , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: r128 DRI driver now fully functional on PPC In-Reply-To: <3A785A27.C0366BC3@iiic.ethz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > - no more messed up colors in modes > 8 bpp. driver no longer uses hardware > > palette in modes > 8bpp, sets fbcon palette correctly instead. > > Sounds great! The disadvantage is that if you change the palette, the text colors don't change until you redraw the screen (or switch VC back-and-forth). That's why I decided to use the hardware palette in directcolor modes. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/