On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > 32 and 24 bpp have the same color resolution (only 24 bits). > > If what you are seeing is banding, it's probably a driver issue. > > Laptop panels typically only have 18 bits of color resolution > > and this becomes visible if the graphics hardware isn't dithering > > from 24 => 18 bits. At least in the case of the "nv" driver for > > NVIDIA chips, there is an Option "FPDither" to turn that on. I > > don't know if other drivers support such options. > > Speaking of the "option": I mean it's ok that such an option exists (for > what reason ever), but is there any good reason for not enabling > dithering by default if the panel is detected as being of 18bit type and > the colordepth is 24? > Detect it how? There's nothing in the EDID that I'm aware of. Mark. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
