Hi,

Thomas Vander Stichele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > if you are using the vesafb frame buffer driver DirectFB can only use
> > the current mode since vesafb doesn't support mode switching. I
> > suspect that the problem is that you are running vesafb in 8bit mode
> > which is not supported by DirectFB (unless you enable the optional
> > RGB332 support).
> 
> Yes, that's the case ! Found the configure option, so will try again with 
> that enabled.
> 
> > You need to change the kernel boot parameters in
> > order to get a useable video mode at boot time. See the kernel
> > documentation (Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt) to learn how to do that.
> 
> I'll keep that as option 2, I don't even know for sure if it can run in 
> more than 8 bit ;)

of course it depends on your usage case, but I'd stronly suggest to
use 16 bit mode and to compile DirectFB w/o RGB332 support. It just
looks _much_ better.

> btw, I didn't see configure options to disable building and installing all 
> of the video drivers that I can't use.  Would a patch for configure adding 
> options for this be accepted ?

yes, that would make sense. Please send a diff (created using diff -up).


Salut, Sven


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