Subject: Color Depth (was: Re: NetBSD and Battery Level tool?)
To: None <schluntz@agames.com>
From: None <cruller@unicom.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/17/1999 08:07:22
I know I'm not telling most of you anything new but FWIW this is 16 bit
colour, e.g. 2^16 = 65536.  32768 is 15 bit e.g. 2^15.  16bit is a
supported resolution, 15 bit is not, in the monitors control panel.  In
my NeXT color Station it has 12 bit color (4096) w/ a switch on the fly
color map which allows it to drive large monitors w/ near
photo-realalistic, albeit slow, output.

Later,
Jer

> But the kernel reports:
> 
> invid0: 640 x 399, 65536 color
> 
> So I would assume that it really is doing 65k colors.
> 
> - -Sean