On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 18:32 -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > FPDither takes 8 bit output and dithers down to 6 bit. It > > will improve the quality on 6 bit panels and degrade it on 8 > > bit panels. Nearly all desktop panels are 8 bit (only very cheap > > or very old ones are not). Most laptop panels have been 6 > > bit, but some high-end laptops have 8 bit panels. > > Ok, thanks. Is there a way to "detect" the panel component size (via > EDID maybe) ? I'm actually surprised that the iMac G5 panel is only 6 > bits but heh, I suppose Apple had to cut costs on this one... I don't > suppose it could be a chip misconfiguration in the firmware causing it > to emit 6 bits data only, could it ? >
The iMac looks very "laptop-like" so I'm not surprised it has a 6 bit panel. It might be in the EDID. I'm not sure how else software would be able to know. Mark. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel