On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:40:37PM +0200, Bu Bacoo wrote: > Hey all, I have a question, about how do DirectFB's drivers work - in > connection to kernel FB driver. Because it's quite fuzzy to me. > > DirectFB requires functional (and initialized) kernel framebuffer. Right? > DirectFB doesn't care, if it is vesa/vesa-tng/exact_card (like > savagefb or viafb). Right? > If it doesn't care, what uses it for? > If it does, what functionality does it use from the kernel? > > Why am I asking? I'd like to have DirectFB 1366x768, and do not know, > if I need support for that in vesa/vesa-tng/savagefb (which doesn't > have it),
Savagefb should probably support arbitrary modes. You can use the 'gtf' utility from X.org/XFree86 to generate a modeline. -- Ville Syrjälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
