Re: xserver-xfree8 4.0.1-8 on powerpc

[Frederic Seraphine <Frederic.Seraphine@inrialpes.fr>]

> >> > it still present some annoying glitch: the color of the whole display is
> >> > wrong, it has a general pink hue.
> 
> Do you mean it is actually pink, or are you simply saying that some
> gray colours have a slightly pinkish shade?

As a matter of fact, yes it's only the gray collors that are pink, but a lot
more than just slightly

> Depth 16 (not 16 bpp!) is a weird mode indeed.  In depth 16, the

thought it was the same thing. I still must be computer graphic illiterate :-).o

> colour cube is not cubic (64x32x32), and colours on the diagonal
> (i.e. shades of gray) need to be approximated with nearby colours, so
> all (non-dithered) grays are either slightly pink or slightly cyan.
> 
> Personally, I prefer using depth 15 (which is still 16bpp).  As Keith
> Packard once mentioned, ``pink is not my favourite shade of gray.''

Tried it and it worked perfectly. Thanks very much