On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:06:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > What happens in 32bpp?? I do not believe that video dac's are > available wider than 8 bits. If they are, are 3 10 bit dac's used, > with the extra 2 bits thrown away? Or is a 12 bit dac used for the > green???? > > Or is this only a maping thing, 24 bits are used, and a whole byte is > thrown away, but using 32bits per pixel cleans up the dma access some > how?
As far as I know, the latter is the case. Kind of a shame. I wish the last 8 bits could be used for an alpha channel. -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god that Debian GNU/Linux | behaves any better than a spoiled child. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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