On Wednesday 10 November 2010, PP0P;P5QP8P9 P P5P<P:P>P2P8Q wrote:
> Hi all. Is there any chance of getting ever 16 or 24 bit color with
> X.org on OpenBSD? Or perhaps even more - the hardware acceleration
> from NetBSD? I have a classroom with about 40 SGI O2 (R12000 400MHz
> and RM7000 350MHz with 512-1024MB of RAM) and the only thing that
> prevents changing the archaic IRIX to nice OpenBSD at the moment is an
> 8-bit color ...
It's been a while since I've played with this code, however as far as I recall
there is nothing stopping gbe(4) from working with 16-bit or 32-bit colour.
There are two places in src/arch/sgi/dev/gbe.c that set "depth = 8" - this
just needs to be changed and the kernel recompiled. The wsfb driver just
operates with whatever depth the framebuffer is already configured for, so
this should just work as well. That said, I think you'll find that it is
horribly slow hence the main reason for sticking with a 8-bit depth.
I would like to port macallan's xf86-video-crime driver, however I cannot say
that it is currently something that is high on my to-do list...
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start assuming that systems are insecure unless designed securely."
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