Re: Voyager GX color mapping

[Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>]

Hi, Geert!

> I wrote `fbtest', not `fbset' ;-)

Okay... I will get it... very soon, tomorrow :-)

>>Well, whenever I change the (yet hardcoded) structs in the driver,
>>fbset -fb /dev/fb2 shows me the correct (changed) values.
>>But there is no change in X at all if I play around with the values.
>>Is it possible that X doesn't get my fb_var_screeninfo? Maybe I need
>>to check xorg.cfg again...
> 
> 
> X may try to change the values again. If you're driver allows that (like it
> seem to do, as per your description above), it may become confusion. Please
> don't allow to change the bitfields in your driver, only allow the values that
> the hardware does support.

Okay... interesting... How does it (try and fail to) change it?
Through IOCTL FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO? Can I get more debug info out of it?
It's all unread-code-land for me yet. My driver might not implement that
yet... Is there good documentation in addition to RTFC?

Thanks again... I'll keep on learning.

Clemens



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