Re: [XFree86] How to reduce the over head of one bit appending in 24 bit RGB image display?

2004-01-31 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Mark Vojkovich wrote: A couple drivers support that but most do not. The reason why is that it's generally a bad idea. If you change the XImage format to 24bpp, many desktop applications will break. Also, performance is sometimes slower than with 32bpp due to alignment issues. See the

[XFree86] How to reduce the over head of one bit appending in 24 bit RGB image display?

2004-01-29 Thread Subbiah
Hi, I am getting the RGB value of the image in 24 bits. So I have Started my application in 24 bit color depth. I am planning to use the XPutImage function for displaying the RGB value of the images. My application reports the depth as 24 butthe bpp ( bits per pixel ) as 32?. So for my