tag 254288 = upstream retitle 254288 xserver-xfree86: [ati/atimisc] poor support for color depths 16 and 24 on 264VT [Mach64 VT] rev 64 thanks
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:23:53PM +1000, Peter Dey wrote: > >There's more than one bit of blue at depth 24; there are 8 bits of blue > >(and 8 bits of green, and 8 bits of red). > > > >Do you mean that the entire blue channel is missing at depth 24? > > Yes, that's correct. The entire blue channel is missing. [...] > >Can you elaborate? What do solid red, blue, and green look like? > > > >% xlogo -fg red -bg black > >% xlogo -fg green -bg black > >% xlogo -fg blue -bg black > > At 24-bit: > -fg red Red > -fg green Green > -fg blue Red > > White (e.g. the background of google) looks like Yellow. > > At 16-bit: > -fg red swirly pink, black and blue? > -fg green swirly pink, black and green? > -fg blue swirly blue, green and black? > > However, White is still white.... > And black (e.g. background of a term window) is still black.... Thanks for following up. This sounds pretty definitively like an upstream driver bug. I'm tweaking the bug parameters accordingly. In the meantime I can only advise that you stick to color depth 8 (though depth 15 might be worth a try). I know that sucks. :( -- G. Branden Robinson | The Bible is probably the most Debian GNU/Linux | genocidal book ever written. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Noam Chomsky http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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