Re: [PATCH] DRM/Radeon: Set depth on low mem Radeon cards to 16 instead of 8.

["Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>]

On Mit, 2012-10-24 at 18:33 +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: 
> The Radeon driver reduces the framebuffer resolution to 8bpp if
> a device with less than 32 Mb VRAM is found. This causes the
> framebuffer to run in 8 bit paletted mode. For a text console this
> is not an issue as 256 different colors is more than one gets
> on a VGA text console.
> It is done to give X more memory to work with since the console memory
> is not freed but remains allocated while X is active.
> Still, running the fbdev Xserver driver - which we do during installation
> - will give applications an 8bit pseudo-color visual which doesn't look
> too pretty.

Is it not possible for xf86-video-fbdev to choose a higher depth anyway,
even if specified explicitly in xorg.conf or on the Xorg command line?


> We therefore limit the framebuffer bpp to 16 when memory is 24MB or lower
> and to 8 only if 8MB or less VRAM is found.
> This should be a reasonable compromise for us.
> This patch will most likely not ever make it upstream.

This last sentence seems stale here. :)


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