[Linux-fbdev-users] RE: FW: Sorry the attachment is here

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Nitin Mahajan wrote:
> But What if I want to set the mode to TRUE_COLOR?
> In that case we need not worry about colormaps.

You cannot control that. If the hardware supports directcolor, the frame buffer
device will provide it and you'll have to emulate truecolor yourself.

The reasoning behind this is that directcolor is much more powerful, and it can
easily emulate truecolor.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:ge...@li...] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 10:01 PM
> To: Nitin Mahajan
> Cc: lin...@li...
> Subject: RE: FW: Sorry the attachment is here
> 
> 
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Nitin Mahajan wrote:
> > But I read that if uhave a true color setting ,u don't need a 
> > colormap, Can u please put more light on this?
> 
> For truecolor you indeed don't need a colormap.
> But for directcolor you do.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li...

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds