On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> The Radeon driver reduces the framebuffer resolution to 8bpp if >> a device with less than 32 Mb VRAM is found. This causes the >> framebuffer to run in 8 bit paletted mode. For a text console this >> is not an issue as 256 different colors is more than one gets >> on a VGA text console. >> It is done to give X more memory to work with since the console memory >> is not freed but remains allocated while X is active. >> Still, running the fbdev Xserver driver - which we do during installation >> - will give applications an 8bit pseudo-color visual which doesn't look >> too pretty. >> We therefore limit the framebuffer bpp to 16 when memory is 24MB or lower >> and to 8 only if 8MB or less VRAM is found. >> This should be a reasonable compromise for us. >> This patch will most likely not ever make it upstream. >> >> This works around ugly modes on crappy IPMI cards using ES1000. > > I don't have a strong opinion either way on this one. Why would you use fbdev? package -modesetting at least if not the real ATI DDX. Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
