RE: FW: Sorry the attachment is here

"Nitin Mahajan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oh ! I C.I will create a colormap for directcolor and try it and let u
know the result.
Thanx u again and again.
Regards

Nitin Mahajan
Socrates Software India Pvt Ltd...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 10:10 PM
To: Nitin Mahajan
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: FW: Sorry the attachment is here


On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Nitin Mahajan wrote:
> But What if I want to set the mode to TRUE_COLOR?
> In that case we need not worry about colormaps.

You cannot control that. If the hardware supports directcolor, the frame
buffer device will provide it and you'll have to emulate truecolor
yourself.

The reasoning behind this is that directcolor is much more powerful, and
it can easily emulate truecolor.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 10:01 PM
> To: Nitin Mahajan
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: FW: Sorry the attachment is here
> 
> 
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Nitin Mahajan wrote:
> > But I read that if uhave a true color setting ,u don't need a
> > colormap, Can u please put more light on this?
> 
> For truecolor you indeed don't need a colormap.
> But for directcolor you do.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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