Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:39:13 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Clucas <> | Subject | Framebuffer stuff |
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Hello, Thanks for your great Framebuffer-Howto. I have a few points I would like to add:
Firstly I have had some success using it on a Intel740 chipset card. It seems to work fine in 8 bit colour depths; at 15 it doesn't display the penguin at bootup and at 16 it is the wrong colours. I can also run X on it; however only at 8 bit colour depth as the colours are wrong at 16. No luck in running at 24 bit; the boot screen just stays blank.
Are there any tools for detecting extra VESA modes (or does anyone know of any i740 docs that will tell me) so I can run at 32bit colour.
The link to the precompiled libc5 X server didn't seem to work so I have uploaded the one I built (should work at 8,16 and 32 bit colour depths) to http://www.btinternet.com/~alan.clucas/XF68_FBDev.bz2 (693611 bytes) or http://www.btinternet.com/~alan.clucas/XF68_FBDev.gz (744110 bytes)
depending upon your choice of compression :)
Alan
PS: Please don't comment on my spelling of colour
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