Re: GLINT/Permedia video driver works in 3.2-beta

Dries Schellekens wrote (in a message from Tuesday 1)
 > 
 > All this works
 > (**) GLINT(0): Depth 8, (--) framebuffer bpp 8
 > (**) GLINT(0): Depth 15, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
 > (**) GLINT(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
 > (**) GLINT(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
 > (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
 > 
 > Depth 1 and 4 don't.

Thanks. 
 > 
 > If I quit X, the color of the console is fuckup up: forground color is
 > green, grey and somethings black (this sucks ;-)), all depending on the
 > depth.

Yes. Between this kind of problems that also exist on i386 and the
bugs in wscons on alpha which make the background color a bit random
even in text mode it won't be possible to fix that for 3.2. 

 > 
 > Xdm doesn't work. It tries to start X, but fails.

This was in 8 bit depth ? it's a known issue with Xrender reserving too
many colors and preventing XPM images to be displayed. 
Someone should write an XPM display code that takes advantage of
Xrender... 



					Matthieu