Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] LCD scaling type

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:29, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > I also have a couple of things that come to mind (like switching from
> > truecolor to directcolor and vice versa without rebooting).  I currently
> > use var->nonstd which is probably not the the right thing to do.
> 
> Since directcolor is a superset of truecolor, shouldn't a driver always use
> directcolor, if the hardware supports it?
> 
Some apps don't know how to treat directcolor.  DirectFB-0.9.15 is
messed up when visual is in directcolor, so I need truecolor here. I
submitted a patch to them so it should get fixed with their next
release.

However, when I go to X, I want it to be in directcolor, for gamma
utilities to work 

Tony