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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: 16-colour X server? Message-ID: <1992Oct13.015735.7298@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <7656@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:57:35 GMT Lines: 23 Richard Tobin (richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk) wrote: : Has anyone written / is anyone writing / are there any plans for a : 16-colour driver for XFree386? This would be useful for those of us : with video boards with only 512k and should also be twice as fast as : the 8-bit version (unless vga is even more brain-dead than it seems). There is a mono driver called vga2 and a program called X386mono but I cannot run it. Then it will be 8 times faster but you only have 2 colors, black and white. I used to think that 8-bit is too much but when I run the XFree86, it is so fast that there is no need to speed it up by 2 time. I'm only using a non cached 386 25 Mhz without 387. In fact 16-bit is the ultimate. There is no need to go any futher. The 24-bit and 32-bit DACs are wasteful because they do not take into account human visual perception. At least that is what TV textbooks say. Is there any recent work proving otherwise? -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet