Fwd: CG14 and 16bit colour

[Andrew Ball <asbatwrk%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Michael,

  MM> I did a lot of work on the cgfourteen, sx and xf86-video-suncg14
    > drivers, one thing I didn't expect was people asking for 8bit
    > acceleration in X, mostly because with a 4MB cg14 you're limited
    > to 1152x900 in 24bit colour, in 8bit you could go all the way to
    > 1920x1200. So I wrote code for that.

    Thanks for your work on this.  Out of interest, can they be made
to send 1152x864 or 1920x1080?  Does the driver (or X11) have any
concept of 8-bit greyscale?

  MM> Looking at the headers files, it looks like at least the DAC
    > supports 16bit colour as well, which would allow 1600x1200 in
    > more than 8bit colour.

    I can see that being nice for 100 DPI on a 20" (visible diagonal)
4:3 screen.  I seem to remember that X11 shipped with 100 DPI bitmap
fonts.

Thanks,
  -Andy.