Re: patch to get latest XFree 4.0 snapshot (xf3918) to work on pp cwith r128

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

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By the way, true 16 bit depth (565) does not work on my machine. The

screen

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comes up but everything is very very green!

Reverting to 16bpp and 15 depth (555) works fine.

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 The problem here is that aty128fb doesn't support 16 bit depth,
asking for 16 bit will give you 15 bit but fbdevhw fails to detect
this.

Is this true even under x86?  What about in the very latest aty128fb from
the latest 2.3.XX kernel?

  Yeap its the same in the x86 side as well, atyfb doesn't support 565
either i imagine you remember the jdk problems that we had in xf68_fbdev
because of this.

But since Mach64 CT/VT/GT do support RGB 565, adding support for it isn't that
difficult. Patches?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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