Re: X over fb: "EGA/VGA planes are not yet supported by the fbdev driver [1]"

Hi and thanks for the reply

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

>> I tried setting "vga=..." - no way. With vga16fb I can boot with the
>
> Try vga=ask.  Then choose from those options until you get a framebuffer,
> vesafb or intelfb.

Hm, did try that, but will try again.

>> framebuffer, i.e. it will be used by the console, but I cannot get X
>> running over it. I can run it over i810 X driver, but I need fb...
>
> Default vga16fb mode is planar, and I don't believe X supports that yet.

"default" - you mean, I can switch it to another mode? A brief look 
through Documentation/fb / fbdev.c didn't reveal any useful info.

I tried vesafb shortly too - to no awail...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
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D-52076 Aachen
Germany


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