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

[email protected] wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 

Yes, the vga16fb code does support packed-pixel mode.  You have to
do an fbset -nonstd true.  But I haven't checked this functionality yet,
it probably depends on the hardware, probably works in 2.4, but I'm not
sure in 2.6.

Tony


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