RE: FW: Sorry the attachment is here

"Nitin Mahajan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Geert!
But I read that if uhave a true color setting ,u don't need a colormap,
Can u please put more light on this?
Iam geeting lot of things to know from ur replies,the concepts are
becoming more clear.
Thank  u very much for that,
Waiting for ur reply
Regards

Nitin Mahajan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:51 PM
To: Nitin Mahajan
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FW: Sorry the attachment is here


	Hi Nitin,

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Nitin Mahajan wrote:
> The colors are definitely in RGB format.
> Actually Iam getting the fb_fix_screeeninfo.visul as 
> FB_VISUAL_DIRECTCOLOR. This parameter is affected by the setings of 
> var_screeninfo. Can u please tell what setings I will have to do in 
> var_screen_info to get a visual as FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR?

You're right, I forgot about that.

If the visual is FB_VISUAL_DIRECTCOLOR and you want FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR,
you have to program a linear colormap yourself. I.e. a colormap where

    clut.red[i] = i;
    clut.green[i] = i;
    clut.blue[i] = i;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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