How to switch from ARGB to BGRA colors?

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:54:35AM +0200, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Daniel Stone schrieb:
> >You can just use the redMask/blueMask/greenMask attributes in your video
> >driver's ScreenInit hook to specify the order.
> 
> Yeah, I fundled around with things like that in the driver. However
> when it comes to font aliasing, things broke again. The transparency pixels
> around the characters of antialiased fonts didn't still appear right.
> The alpha channel seems to be ignored here.

Hi,

This is probably just FreeType assuming your subpixel ordering is RGB
instead of BGR (subpixel layout being independent of framebuffer byte
ordering); this is configurable through Xft, et al.

Cheers,
Daniel
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