On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 21:15 +0000, Robert de Bath wrote: > > I still need to add the -fbbpp 32 option (or it's xorg.conf equiv). > > Without the option (and no rotation) the screen is now the full height > but 'squished' into the left three quarters of the display (with nasty > colours). I would say it's got a correct bytes per line but is encoding > the pixels as 24bit not 32.
That's bug #338241. I'm pondering changing the fbdev driver to default to 32bpp though. > One other oddity is that it seems to be saying that the 640x480 mode > is acceptable; but AFAIK the kernel vesa fbdev driver cannot change > the video mode on the fly so only the 800x600x32 mode that the fb is > currently set to on boot is actualy used ... I noticed that, but it's more likely a bug in vesafb. As the log indicates, the fbdev driver actually queries the framebuffer device on the usability of each mode. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer