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Date:      Thu, 1 May 1997 12:11:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updated driver (bt848-970424)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970501120730.16083A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19970501070521.63393@ct.picker.com>

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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Randall Hopper wrote:

> Ahhh, I think I know what's going on now.  The Bt's 4Bpp format w/ no byte
> swapping is: ARGB.  With byte swapping, you get access to BGRA, GBAR, and
> RABG.  According to your visual's RGB masks (RGB: 0000FF,00FF00,FF0000) and
> display frame buffer depth (4Bpp), seems you need an ABGR ordering.  The Bt
> can't do it, thus the drop-back to X images.  Sorry about that.
> 
> If the Mach64 server support changing the pixel component ordering for that
> 4Bpp/24bpp mode to ARGB (I know the chip supports it at least), that should
> get you going there.  Otherwise 15/16bpp might be your best option.

This is the best I've heard yet.  :)  At least you guys can stop banging
on this then... Guess it's time to go bother xfree.  

Thanks all for helping me resolve this.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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