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From: "Joel Soete" <jsoe0708@tiscali.be>
To: "M. Grabert" <xam@cs.ucc.ie>, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: RE: [parisc-linux] STI fb questions
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:46:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9BA3A600000D8F@ocpmta2.freegates.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304161319540.28370-100000@sal.ucc.ie>

>So it should be able to display at least 800x600 in 24/32bit and
>1024x768 in 16bit, but it refuses to do so. 'dmesg' ALWAYS shows
>only 8bit colour depth regardless of the display resolution.
>

(may be you will find more accurate explanation on the stifb driver limits
with a search in this m-l)

>Obviously the standard sti=8/24 sti_font=VGA8x16 is used in the
>kernel command line (according to dmesg, however it's not specified in
>palo.conf).

Well if some parameters are not specified, palo take default value for those
once. 

>
>My question is know, does STIfb also supports 16bit? How can I force
>16bit and 24/32bit colour depths?

Unfortunately, it is not possible to force to use more than what dmesg announce
you (see limits) :(

> What does sti=8/24 exactly mean?
>
IIRC 8bit 24 colour depth.

Joel

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-16 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-16 12:28 [parisc-linux] STI fb questions M. Grabert
2003-04-16 15:46 ` Joel Soete [this message]
2003-04-16 17:52 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2003-04-16 17:59   ` [parisc-linux] color recovery M. Grabert
2003-04-16 21:33     ` Michael S.Zick

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