[haiku-commits] Re: [haiku-commits] Re: r38003 -=D=A=D=A haiku/trunk/src/system/boot/platform/bios_ia32

  • From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:18:22 +0000

> If I am not mistaken, a 15 bit mode *always* has an unused bit 
> somewhere. 
> Didn't know it could be at different places, but it would surely 
> explain 
> unexpected weirdness. :-)

Yes. The real 16-bit mode has an extra (6th) green bit, and no unused 
bit.
But some old video cards say they have a 16-bit video mode while it's 
actually 15...

-- 
Adrien.

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