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Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm considering buying a new monitor (and graphics card) which |
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> supports 10 bits per color channel. |
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> Will Gimp on a Linux machine (X11) support this now or in the near |
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> future. Or is it just waste of money to buy a monitor with more than |
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> 8 bits/color channel? Many thanks for some hints, |
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> Helmut |
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I have two identical machines. GPU is Radeon R7 250E and Monitor is |
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a Samsung U32D970. Monitor and GPU both supporting 10bpc. One machine |
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is running Gentoo and the other Win7. |
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When I start Radeon Settings on the Win machine, it shows me that |
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10bpc are used. All graphic software that I use on the win machine |
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also supports 10bpc. |
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On the gentoo machine I use xf86-video-ati-7.10.0 and |
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xorg-server-1.19.5. When I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I can see that |
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only 8bpc are used. |
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At the time when I bought my monitor (nearly 3 years ago) I searched |
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the internet for information about Linux and 10bpc. All I found was |
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that it is not supported by the xorg drivers. As I do no graphic work |
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on gentoo this is not that important for me. So I never searched again. |
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Maybe it is supported now but I didn't read anything about that on the |
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xorg-announce mailing list so I don't think so. |
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Maybe other drivers (nvidia or proprietary amd) are supporting 10bpc. |
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But I never searched for that information. |
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Although the newest Gimp supports 16 and 32 bit images and also can |
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use these color depths on internal rendering, I don't know if Gimp |
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could support more than 8bpc color output if the display would be able |
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to. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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