From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: small radeon frame buffer issues
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:17:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113175071.9517.514.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504101159.36819.post@hendrik-sattler.de>
> I tried with
> video=radeonfb:1024x768-24@60
> and this resulted in no framebuffer console at all. 24bpp is a common setting
> for X and in my opinion, the driver should just do the right thing with the
> request (e.g. map it 32bpp if necessary).
> Or at least you could print a kernel message in the default case that the
> selected bpp value is not supported.
Hrm... Is this the "old" or "new" radeonfb ? Also does it actually work
if you just replace 24 with 32 on the kernel command line ?
> 3.
> radeonfb is mentioned in no file in Documentation/fb/. This lets one guess on
> how to use it. Please add radeonfb to the supported list in
> Documentation/fb/modedb.txt
>
> Thanks.
>
> Hendrik Sattler
>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-10 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-10 9:59 small radeon frame buffer issues Hendrik Sattler
2005-04-10 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-10 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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