On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 17:59, Laurent Mohin wrote: > > I'm working on a PowerPC (big endian) processor but my graphic controller > (Silicon Motion SMI712) insists on treating its frame buffer as little > endian. > Working at 16bpp, byte swapping led me to incorrect colors on my display. > > Is there an option or a patch available in the Xserver to get rid of this > issue?
You could use a shadow framebuffer with a dedicated update function, but you'd lose any hardware acceleration. Doesn't the chip provide means to swap bytes on the framebuffer aperture though? Most non-ancient chips do. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
