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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next prev parent 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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