Subject: Re: Picasso IV 16-bit?
To: Amiga-NETBSD <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 03/15/2005 10:46:48
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:20:04AM +0200, Emm Vasilakis wrote:
>
> On 2005-03-14 at 10:16, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:02:47PM +0200, Emm Vasilakis wrote:
> > > Can I use 16-bit screens with a Picasso IV under NetBSD?
> > 
> >   No.
> > 
> > > Is a proper grfmodes all I need? I've noticed on the INSTALL.X11 doc
> > > that for the grf3 dev's (Picasso II, IV) only 8-bit depth is supported.
> > > Is this still true?
> > 
> >   The kernel part supports > 8 bit, the Cirrus X11 driver doesn't.
> 
> so, is it just a "bug" in Xamiga or a limitation of the current driver?

  Its a limitation, nobody wrote code to handle > 8bit for Cirrus.

  Gunther

  PS: Don't top-post in the future!