RE: [Linux-fbdev-users] radeonfb: strange blue lines after 'setterm-inversescreen on'

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

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Hihn, Jason wrote:
> 15bit I think dates back to some [matrox?] cards, circa 1995. No one
> else really had/supported that.

Many cards do both 15 (5/5/5) and 16 (5/6/5), e.g. ATI Mach64. The main
disadvantage of 5/6/5 is that you cannot have accurate greyscales. Grey will
always be a bit greenish or purplish, since there are no integer values x and y
for which x/31 = y/63.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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