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 ;) -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" Convergence GmbH -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
