Re: 32 bit color depth with NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:17:27 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > I'm afraid this is not correct. If I use, say, the VESA server, I > can set color depth to 32 bits. This is correct, a tiny bit of self researches would have told you so (and if you don't trust me, try to get an integer number of bits dividin

Re: 32 bit color depth with NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:58:27AM +0200, B wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:07:48 -0400 > Carl Fink wrote: > > > NVIDIA driver downloaded today. "nvidia-settings" shows color > > depth as 24 bit and offers no way to change that. > > > > I know this chipset is capable of 32 bit depths. What a

Re: 32 bit color depth with NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:07:48 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > NVIDIA driver downloaded today. "nvidia-settings" shows color > depth as 24 bit and offers no way to change that. > > I know this chipset is capable of 32 bit depths. What am I missing? You are missing 2 things: 1- color plans are 8 bits (ex

32 bit color depth with NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

The above is the output of lpsci. I'm using the latest proprietary NVIDIA driver downloaded today. "nvidia-settings" shows color depth as 24 bit and offers no way to change that. I know this chipset is capable of 32 bit depths. What am I missing? Thanks. -- Carl Fink ni