Limited colour depth on Ubuntu on laptop LCD

Posted Sat, 2009-02-28 16:27 by danellisuk

I tend to use the proprietary Nvidia linux driver. But recently I thought I would see if I could get along with the free nv driver. My biggest issue was the low colour depth of the LCD on my laptop. This turns out to be due to the LCD screen being limited to 6bit per pixel rather than the expected 8bit per pixel. The answer is to enable dithering, which the proprietary driver does automatically.
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