Re: iBook video output
On 22 Apr 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 16:20, Edd Dumbill wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:20, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > So, can anyone suggest how I solve the screwy colors problem, or make
> > > > offb use a mode deeper than 8 bits?
> > >
> > > OFfb basically takes the display from Open Firmware and can't change
> > > anything, so I'm afraid there's no way except maybe in OF.
> >
> > I've played with OF, and it won't do anything better than an 8-bit
> > framebuffer. (dev screen, 8 set-depth). So, looks like we're stuck
> > with that if using offb.
> >
> > Any ideas why the palette's so screwy in X Windows?
>
> Probably because the X server tries to change the palette on behalf of
> its clients, which doesn't work with OFfb.
... except for a few known video cards (mainly ATI).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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