Quoting James Su ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> 
> >Quoting Sebastian Ley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > 
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I wonder if it is possible to get directfb working on a vga16fb
> >>framebuffer. Anything I try leads me to the "Current mode not
> >>supported" error...
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >This will be supported after I've been integrating the 4bit patch
> >from James Su. I'm sorry that I didn't finish that yet.
> >
> > 
> >
> I don't think vga16fb will be supported by my patch. As I know vga16fb 
> mode uses 4 planes video memory, we must split a pixel into 4 bits and 
> write them to different planes. I don't know if there are some emulation 
> code in linux vga16fb driver to emulate vga16 into a 4 bits packed pixel 
> format. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm unsure, too.
A simple test would be "echo '~' > /dev/fb0".
If the first two pixels are touched only it's packed ;)

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Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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