[rescue] Re: SGI Onyx4 - uses ATI graphics chips (sigh)

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:35:01AM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> The difference between 24 (8 bit per channel) and 48
> (16 bit per channel) when compositing, can be
> tremendous.

Ahh, 48 is 16 per channel.  Your right.  For some reason I was thinking
12 (actually, I know why.  I heard somewhere that the Impact graphics
options supposedly used 16bit graphics, but then at the ramdac stage
dropped 4 bits).