On 31.01.2011 02:18, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Package: grub-ieee1275
Version: 1.99~rc1-1
Severity: minor

Using grub-ieee1275 and the stock debian background for grub's
graphical boot, i get a poor display of the colors of the image.

the image being displayed is the stock debian squeeze grub background:

0 abc@tut:/tmp$ identify /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
/usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png PNG 640x480 640x480+0+0 8-bit 
DirectClass 31.1KB 0.000u 0:00.019
0 abc@tut:/tmp$

(also attached to this bug report).

I've taken a photo of a powerpc machine with the monitor mis-rendering
this image.  This misrendering seems to happen on all powerpc machines
i've tried (both 32 and 64 bit, with ATI and NVIDIA GPUs).
All IEEE1275 I've seen around provide only indexed modes, one byte per pixel. So at most 256 colors. But only 16 are usable, since AFAIR set_palette on IEEE1275 doesn't work with colors >= 16. I may be wrong but attempting to change behaviour may result in worse bugs on machines which have the set_palette problem (e.g. having black on black text)

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko




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