Re: xorg nv options
On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 11:21 +0200, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote:
> Hi list:
>
> Under debian/xorg nv driver I had problem showing some graphics,
> specially the ones that had color gradients, the steps of the gradient
> were very noticeable and the same graphic showed much better under OSX.
>
> Playing with the 'nv' options I found that using
>
> Option "FPDither" "true"
>
> in the 'device' section made a big difference.
>
> If you are having the same 'problem' hope this helps you.
To be more precise, this depends on the type of flat panel that is
connected to your machine. Cheap ones (like Apple uses on the iMac G5)
have only, I think, 6 bits per components and thus need hardware
dithering to avoid uglyness in color gradients.
Ben.
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