From: Alan C. <al...@lx...> - 2003-02-28 00:23:27
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On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 00:04, Paul J.Y. Lahaie wrote: > There are areas where X11 doesn't fit in well. (Feel free to correct > me) but R300 and GFX level cards support 128bpp (32bpp floating point). > The X protocol has no way to display to this kind of device. Which > means that fpu color applications (probably games for the forseeable > future) would only be able to run in integer mode or full screen. Actually the X system is quite extensible in this area. Indeed 15/16bit were not standard X11 pixel depths until the PC world and XFree86 made it happen. People have previously added stuff that lets you do imaging using tiff and jpeg with an Xserver. |