Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:27:02 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Mircea Romanitan <mitch_mrc@yahoo.com>, powerpc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: iMac G5 LXDE colour depth issue Message-ID: <20190726142702.4375364c@titan.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <20190726192233.GB26129@lonesome.com> References: <C328A6F1-5CB4-40D8-BF1E-B9EE5C1E8EDF@yahoo.com> <20190726192233.GB26129@lonesome.com>
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:22:33 +0000 Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:16:13PM +0300, Mircea Romanitan via > freebsd-ppc wrote: > > Installed from ports X, LXDE, but starting X the colours are ugly. > > I have a Blackbird (Power9) running 13.0-CURRENT r349478 and xfce4 and > the colors are ugly there, too. > > So, I think we have a generic problem on ppc64 with graphics. > > I haven't investigated yet, myself, as the machine is still fairly new > to me, and I'm mostly sshing to it right now. > > mcl It's not a generic problem on ppc64, just a generic problem on ppc64 with AST graphics (BMC on the Blackbird and Talos). It's an endian issue. With a discrete graphics card (old AMD graphics card supported by graphics/drm-legacy-kmod) it should be fine. Acceleration is another story altogether, though. - Justin
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