** Summary changed: - usplash appears black and white (grayscale) on amd64 + usplash limited to 16-colours on amd64 (grayscale/black and white)
** Description changed: - Binary package hint: usplash + Because of limitations, usplash uses 'vga16fb' when running on amd64 + machines. - Hi + As VGA16 is limited to 16-colours, it is chosen that these are used for + 16 shades of grayscale between black and white. - I have an athlon 300+ amd64 with ubuntu 6.10 installed from the beta cd - (amd64). Usplash appears black and white and doesn't seem to show - correctly. + See bug #56587. - On dapper usplash worked fine. - - Thanks + <sladen> mjg59: remind me again what exactly the amd64 framebuffer usplash grayscale issue is---it's just not possible to program the palette entries over 16 ? + <mjg59> sladen: No clue [..] It's going to stop using vga16fb. + <Mithrandir> sladen: it's using the vga framebuffer for various reasons. + <Mithrandir> the current x86emu in the usplash source tree doesn't work correctly on amd64 -- usplash limited to 16-colours on amd64 (grayscale/black and white) https://launchpad.net/bugs/67545 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
