On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 08:55:23AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:17:05PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Besides signing a petition to nVidia what can I do to help? I know c (but
> > have never written a driver) and am in the process of learning assembly. Is
> > there anything I can do? where should I start?
> Switching X to 24bpp?
> Look for DefaultDepth in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and set it to 24
The default depth is/was set to 24. If I run xdpyinfo it tells me that
depth: 24 planes
This has to be incorrect. X thinks it is running in 24 bit but my eyes
tell me otherwise. Every high color picture I look at has color rings as
if I was only seeing cheap 8 bit color. The exact same pictures look
SO much better on anouther computer that I know is running 24 bit.
fbset gives me a response that it is running at 8 bit:
mode "1024-768-116"
# D: 100.000 MHz, H: 93.985 kHz, V: 116.318 Hz
geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8
timings 10000 16 16 16 16 8 8
rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode
I think that the problem is because it is really using just the openframe
buffer. I am using the "nv" driver from xfree86 but the openframebuffer driver
will not let me as far as I know change the color depth. Please correct me if I
am wrong.
Thanks
Jeremiah
