Re: fbdev problems

Hi Pieter,

Normally a fixinfo.type of 4 means your display is planar rather than linear.
PicoGUI should support this if you have the "vgaplan4" Video Base Library enabled.

--Micah

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Pieter Grimmerink wrote:
> I'm just new to picogui. 
> Got x11 video output working right away, without any problems. (CVS 13-2-2003)
> 
> But I have to use the framebuffer device.
> 
> When I start pgserver with '-v fbdev', I get an unsupported color depth error.
> I've found the source of this problem, in the file
> /pgserver/video/fbdev.c
> Line 287 does a switch (FB_TYPE(fixinfo.type,vid->bpp)),
> with vid->bpp = 4 and fixinfo.type = 4
> This results in a value of 1024.
> It looks like fixinfo.type should not be 4.
> Is this a problem in my configuration?
> 
> I've hacked it to 0, and now my frame buffer device is opened, and I get a 
> white screen, a good start I guess ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pieter
> 
> 
> 
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