On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:58:27AM +0200, Bzzzz wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:07:48 -0400 > Carl Fink <[email protected]> wrote: > > > NVIDIA driver downloaded today. "nvidia-settings" shows color > > depth as 24 bit and offers no way to change that. > > > > I know this chipset is capable of 32 bit depths. What am I missing? > > You are missing 2 things: > 1- color plans are 8 bits (except on very special cards), > 2- after RGB, you also have the alpha plan (transparency), > which makes 4 plans, but it is a convention (pre-alpha?) > to only mention the RGB plans and not the alpha one; thus > RGB=3 x8 = 24bits.
I'm afraid this is not correct. If I use, say, the VESA server, I can set color depth to 32 bits. If I use the proprietary NVIDIA driver, I cannot. Why not? -- Carl Fink [email protected] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
