Re: 3.16, i915: less colors in X?

From: Martin Steigerwald
Date: Sat Jun 21 2014 - 17:16:49 EST


Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2014, 22:29:01 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> Hi!
>
> I just test-booted 3.16-rc1, and background in X looked just wrong --
> very noticeable bands on the background gradient. I thought that maybe
> it is just my eyes, but I went back to older kernel, and background is
> ok now.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to ask X what color depth it is using...?

I think:

martin@merkaba:~> xdpyinfo | grep -i "depth of root"
depth of root window: 24 planes

but am not completely sure.

> This is thinkpad x60 with Debian 6.0.9.

Ciao,
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