>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.
Yes, XF68_FBDdev (as of 3.3.2) can't handle more than 8bit color depth.
>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.
I've a DOS tool which can do.
>The link to the precompiled libc5 X server didn't seem to work
Uups? Should work. Typo somewhere?
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/linux/XF68_FBDev.gz
I'll put my dos utility to that place tomorrow.
Gerd
PS: vesafb is'nt the only framebuffer driver. You might want to check
out GGI, kgicon works fine here.
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