Powermac 7600 Video

Dan Burcaw yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Apr 1 02:58:01 2003


> Yes, that's what I've found out by trial and error ... why 15-bit??
> It would also be nice to get 24bit if I have a 4MB-onboardvideo in a
> PPC7600, but it seems to me that the fbdev-module of XF4.2 (and 4.2.99,
> I haven't tested the stable release 4.3 yet) just does 16bit-video ... ;

15 bit is just what these old Mac chips did.. I don't recall why they do
this, however.  Also, YDL 3's XF 4.3 build support 24-bit fbdev (on
hardware that supports that depth, anyway)

-Dan