Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> 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.
> 

savagefb can also use the CVT algorithm to compute a modeline. Boot
with video=savagefb:1366x768M or video=savagefb:1366x768MR.

Tony

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