AFAIK 24bpp is also referred to as "packed pixel" - 32 & 24bpp give the same amount of colours (16.7 million)but with 24bpp the colour info is compressed. Some hardware can't handle the 24bpp and must use 32bpp.
================================================== Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk ================================================== On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Marcelo Ramos wrote: > > The number of colors is not the same. > > With 24bpp you have the color of each pixel represented by a binary number > with > 24 bits (bit = 0 or 1), then you have 2^24 = 16.777.216 colors. > > With 32bpp you have the color of each pixel represented by a binary number > with > 32 bits, then you have 2^32 = 4.294.967.296 colors. > > If you want a given resolution HxV with Nbpp you video card must have at least > (H * V * N) / (1024^2) Kbytes of memory. > > > > Marcelo. > > -- > ______________________________________________________ > ______ _____________ > Marcelo Ramos | \/ __ | > Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux 2.2.17 | |_/ / > Linux registered user #118109 | \ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_____|\/|_____|\_____\ > > Firma la peticion de drivers para Linux en : > http://www.libranet.com/petition.spanish.html > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
