Re: [AD] fbcon driver color depth

To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AD] fbcon driver color depth
From: Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:48:07 +0100

Peter Wang wrote:


So set_gfx_mode can succeed with a different colour depth to what was
set with set_color_depth?


Yes. :-/

It that a bad thing? I guess it is. The only way to find out which colordepth was actually set is bitmap_color_depth(screen).

I can easily make set_gfx_mode() fail if the color depth is not supported.


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