On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 18:26 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:06:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
What happens in 32bpp?? I do not believe that video dac's are
available wider than 8 bits. If they are, are 3 10 bit dac's used,
with the extra 2 bits thrown away?
I see that X servers can be set to run at 8,16,24, or 32 BPP. (also 2
and 4 but that's yuck!).
I know that the 8 bpp mode uses a map table to select 256 out of 2**16
or 2**18 colors, assuming that the card has 3 6 bit dac's, one for
each color. In 16 or 15 bit mode the access to the dac's is
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:06:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
What happens in 32bpp?? I do not believe that video dac's are
available wider than 8 bits. If they are, are 3 10 bit dac's used,
with the extra 2 bits thrown away? Or is a 12 bit dac used for the
green
Or is this only a
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