OMAP3 and 256 colour mode

Having updated to the latest ROM release (28 Jan 13), I find that changing the desktop mode into 256 colours from my usual 16M results in icon text almost becoming illegible. Window titles, text under iconbar icons, text in action buttons etc all display the phenomenon. 16, 32K and 16M colours are fine, only 256 colour mode is affected.

I drop the screen colours when taking screen snaps for help files etc, which is when I noticed it today.

Reverting to the 23 Jan ROM image and the problem disappears.

This is on an ARMini.

I find that changing the desktop mode into 256 colours from my usual 16M results in icon text almost becoming illegible.

I cannot recreate this. Here’s what I did:

• !Boot 1.09 and OMAP3 ROM from from 14-Mar-2013
• Monitor definition “Generic” in 1280×1024 mode with 16M colours on boot up
• Open an !Edit window with some text, with Sassoon/Primary as the font (desktop font Homerton)
• Use display manager to step down all the screen depths to black and white
• Use display manager to stup up all the screen depths to 16M again

I suspect it was some fallout from this change which meant the ColourTrans lookup tables weren’t being generated during the ROM build (though ColourTrans itself was!). This was fixed a few days later .

@ Sprow – Sorry – I should have posted that the ‘bug’ had cleared a week or so later when I came back to test it with a later ROM build. I assumed it had been fixed and required no more comment from me.