Some cards do not support 24 bit modes, thru VESA 2.0,
which FBDev uses, tho they can be hacked into that
mode, but it isn't worth the effort.
Nikhil.
--- Sthitaprajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> A ran into a peculiar problem yesterday.....it's
> like this>>
> When i run FB X at 24 bpp, the thing just won't
> work, funnily,
> everything is alright at 8, 16 and even 32 bpp. So
> what's up??
>
> Though I run X otherwise, this was just some sort of
> a test run to see
> how framebuffer works. Anyone else fell into this
> well? Am using
> SuSE 6.3
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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>
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