Steven Hanley wrote: > > DRI only works in depth 16 or depth 24, fbbpp 32, but on a Pismo there's > > not enough video RAM to hold all the necessary buffers for the latter so > > you're pretty much stuck with depth 16. You're gonna need > > http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/fbdev/aty128fb-16bit.diff to > > use that with UseFBDev. > > a kernel patch,
Right, it fixes aty128fb for depth 15/16. > hmm is this going into ben's tree any time soon? That's up to him, at least I submitted it to him among others. :) > oh well shall rsync the latest benh tree and apply it and see what happens. You'll get rejects, but it shouldn't be hard to merge. > > > Going to go read the README.DRI again to see how to work out if it is > > > working. > > > > Also read the DRI user guide at http://dri.sf.net/doc/DRIuserguide.html . > > well the README.DRI in the X Free tarball is pretty much that document as > far as I can tell. True, but the DRI site also has a FAQ and other documentation. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
