Re: more colours with atyfb?
On 30 Dec 2000, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> "Michel D=E4nzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:
> > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote:
> > > "Adam C Powell IV" <hazelsct@mit.edu> writes:
>
> > > > Speaking of >8 colors on atyfb, the 15- and 16-bit colormaps on my
> > > > Mach64 VT (Motorola StarMax 3000/160 =3D pmac 4400 clone) are jacke=
> d
> > > > up, both in the console and X, 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-pre12. Tux is in
> > > > ugly shades of orange, pink and green, and X (4.0.2, fbdev driver)
> > > > colors are all over the place, though the background and text color=
> s
> > > > in the console are not bad.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else seen this? What should I do to further investigate=
> ,
> > > > or maybe patch?
>
> > > The interesting thing is that I see this even when running
> > > applications on my pismo and displaying it on other X servers. So
> > > that seems to indicate that it's not a Server issue, no?
>
> > What machines do you display to? Do local apps look right on them?
>
> I display on a intel p100 box running debian and XF3.3 from potato.
And the application that shows the problem is netscape? Netscape has known bugs
when displaying on a machine with a different endianness.
I saw that bug when running Netscape on a Solaris/SPARC box while displaying on
a Linux/ia32 box in 24 or 32 (don't remember which one) bpp with some X
servers.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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