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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:39:16 +0300
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Patrick Reich <dminor@houston.rr.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2 & nvidia x11 driver: weird 16bpp/24bpp colorspace damage
Message-ID:  <20070115233916.GB24558@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <1168900436.20805.6.camel@acheron>
References:  <20070115212338.9AF0516A5D9@hub.freebsd.org> <1168900436.20805.6.camel@acheron>

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* Patrick Reich (dminor@houston.rr.com) wrote:
> > Update: after some research I've determined natre of this color
> > distortion. It seems like card interpretes each RGB8 value (24 bits, 8
> > for each color component) as RBG4 (12 bits, 4 bits for each component,
> > red-blue-green order).
> > 
> > Thus, color which is 0xFF0000 (red) looks like magenta onscreen (red =
> > 0xF, green = 0x0, blue = 0xF) and so on.
> > 
> > Doesn't anyone have any problems with nvidia driver on 6.2-RELEASE?
> 
> Yes but my problem with the nvidia driver is because the
> new version in ports no longer supports the card in my laptop
> (GForce4 440 go).  X log says to use the old 96xx version of
> the driver.
I've used portdowngrade for that purpose. My GF3 is not supported
by 97xx as well.

-- 
Best regards,
  Dmitry Marakasov               mailto:amdmi3@amdmi3.ru




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