iMac G5 LXDE colour depth issue

[Justin Hibbits]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:22:33 +0000
Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:16:13PM +0300, Mircea Romanitan via
> freebsd-ppc wrote:
> > Installed from ports X, LXDE, but starting X the colours are ugly.  
> 
> I have a Blackbird (Power9) running 13.0-CURRENT r349478 and xfce4 and
> the colors are ugly there, too.
> 
> So, I think we have a generic problem on ppc64 with graphics.
> 
> I haven't investigated yet, myself, as the machine is still fairly new
> to me, and I'm mostly sshing to it right now.
> 
> mcl

It's not a generic problem on ppc64, just a generic problem on ppc64
with AST graphics (BMC on the Blackbird and Talos).  It's an endian
issue.  With a discrete graphics card (old AMD graphics card supported
by graphics/drm-legacy-kmod) it should be fine.  Acceleration is another
story altogether, though.

- Justin