Intel - Dithering on a 6 bit panel

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 23:57 +0000, James Legg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an Asus X58L laptop, which has Intel GM965 graphics. The
> framebuffer configurations reported by glxinfo all have 8 bits for each
> of the colour channels. However, the output looks like 6 bits with
> static 2 by 2 spatial dithering. Assuming the display is actually 6
> bits, is there any way I can get temporal dithering?

Yeah, your panel is likely only 6 bits.  I've never seen any knobs for
better dithering.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com


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