[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [Question] Colour management

[Ville <sy...@sc...>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:12:36PM +0200, Alexander Kern wrote:
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> Hallo Tony,
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> can you explain the deep mining of fb_setcolreg. Background, I observe =
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> palette using in 15 and 16 bpp modes, but can not understand, what is=20
> the right approach. In both cases from penguin logo I can see only cont=
our in=20
> honey yellow and blue vertical string jsimmons, pretty scury ;-) The re=
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> black! The simple text or ncurses applications have always right colour=
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> Additionally and only by 16bpp fbi shows blurry images.

I just had a look at the fbi code and it's wrong. It was initializing the=
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clut to 555. The attached patch fixes the problem.

I think the boot logo code is broken. No, I haven't actually looked at it=
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but everything else works... Or does it work on some other directcolor hw=
?

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