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 -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
