patch to get latest XFree 4.0 snapshot (xf3918) to work on pp cwith r128

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> > >> > By the way, true 16 bit depth (565) does not work on my machine. The
> > >>screen
> > >> > comes up but everything is very very green!
> > >> >
> > >> > Reverting to 16bpp and 15 depth (555) works fine.
> >
> > >  The problem here is that aty128fb doesn't support 16 bit depth,
> > >asking for 16 bit will give you 15 bit but fbdevhw fails to detect
> > >this.
> >
> > Is this true even under x86?  What about in the very latest aty128fb from
> > the latest 2.3.XX kernel?
>
>   Yeap its the same in the x86 side as well, atyfb doesn't support 565
> either i imagine you remember the jdk problems that we had in xf68_fbdev
> because of this.

But since Mach64 CT/VT/GT do support RGB 565, adding support for it isn't that
difficult. Patches?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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