Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken
On 21 Jan 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 19:55, Nick Bailey wrote:
> > Success on the 24-bit mode. I found out that on this G4, append
> > video=atyfb:vmode=22:cmode=24 works wonders. Then the DefaultFbBpp line
> > in the XF86Config-4 file is unnecessary (in fact, has to be removed).
>
> Color depth in console and X are independent. In fact, anything besides
> cmode=8 is a waste of video RAM and performance for console because it
> only has 16 colors anyway.
Hmm... We really need to add 16-color support to many fbdevs, so the text
console can be even faster ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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