Re: [Dri-devel] Matrox Parhelia

[Keith P. <ke...@ke...>]

Around 9 o'clock on Jun 20, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pasi_K=E4rkk=E4inen?= wrote:

> If I have understood correctly, X supports up to 16 bits per component
> (16*3 == 48bit) color depths. And the protocol should allow even deeper
> color depths quite easily..

Not quite -- X color components are stored in 16 bit values, but X pixels 
are no larger than 32 bits.  The Render extension provides for 16 bits per 
component in it's pixel descriptions with an eye towards an extension
which can create drawables in such depths.

I'd love to play with hardware with pixels larger than 32 bits...

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab