Re: [Dri-devel] S3 twister K gamma correction

[Alex D. <ag...@ya...>]

--- Felix Kühling <fx...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004 06:15:15 -0700 (PDT)
> Alex Deucher <ag...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> > Update to the latest driver (dri trunk) based on tim's code. As I
> > recall, older drivers based on S3's code did not support gamma
> > correction properly.  
> 
> Gamma correction works (for me at least) in 24bit mode only. :-/ BTW,
> in
> 24bit it looks like the LCD display (on my notebook) is driven with a
> lower color depth than 24-bits. Therefore color gradients look better
> in
> 16bit mode because then they are software-dithered. Is this a
> hardware
> limitation of the notebook's LCD panel or a driver problem?

It seems to be a driver problem.  There is a bug in xfree86 bugzilla:
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75
It's marked as closed, but it doesn't seem to have been resolved.

Alex

> 
> Felix
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> > 
> > Alex
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