I don't know if you can get the physical colour depth from the EDID but
doubt it.

When I first encountered such a problem it was a Macbook Air 11" with
Nvidia graphics. I was shocked, but the good news is that the Nvidia
driver does temporal dithering, so it looks nice (once you turn that
feature on). Such temporal dithering done in the driver looks much nicer
than doing it statically in an image. And of course, this is only the
wallpaper. We can't easily fix it for the graphics you see in your
application windows.

Changing wallpaper is a trivial workaround, but it does disappoint me
that we're degrading the quality feel of the out-of-box experience.
Anyway, it's up to design...

P.S. I use this awesome image to test if a display is any good:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html
Looking at that gradient it becomes pretty obvious if you have a crumby 6-bit 
panel.

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