Hi, On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:27 AM, russell <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed after upgrading to Nvidia Driver 295.53 that the driver supports a > colour depth of 30 giving 1.1 billion colours as an experimental feature > does the current release of X implemented in OI_151.1.4 support the 30 bit > colour depth. If the 30 bit colour depth is selected it warns about X > support and that some applications do not support 30bit depth. If the > application does not support 30 bit depth will it operate at 24 bit depth > and still be displayed or will the application not display anything or > crash?
I have two pieces of anecdotal evidence. 1) For some time in the 1990s I was using a Matrox card that supported a 10-bit-per-channel depth, and I didn't run into any programs that would misbehave (luck?). 2) I currently use a certain image viewing program that requires that the display be exactly 8 bits (total) or it will crash. To run it, I need to restart X in 8-bit mode or run something like Xephyr. I would guess that many programs should be fine, especially the relatively common ones, but you may run into a specific applications that don't know what to do if the number of colours doesn't match what it expects. Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
