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.

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Ville Syrjälä
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