[Savage40] Long-Standing Bug

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Tue Feb 1 10:01:50 PST 2005


Alex Deucher wrote:

>I tried 8, but I got a palette that was WAY off (looks like depth 8). 
>Is there a bit somewhere to toggle 6/8 bit CLUT mode?
>  
>
>the current driver still sets the palette bits to 6 in all cases except
>depth 8.  setting it to 8 does produces a very broken output (looks
>like depth 8).  Is there a crtc bit somewhere to toggle the CLUT mode? 
>I know on radeon hardware there is and the palette bits are set to 6 or
>8 depending on what mode the CLUT is in.  Most other drivers seem to
>set the palette bits to 6, but they may only have 6 bit CLUTs.
>  
>

SR1B bit 4.  0 means 6-bit, 1 means 8-bit.  Looks like we set it to 0.  
I wonder why I never noticed that before.

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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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