On Mit, 2012-10-24 at 18:33 +0200, Egbert Eich 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. Is it not possible for xf86-video-fbdev to choose a higher depth anyway, even if specified explicitly in xorg.conf or on the Xorg command line? > 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 last sentence seems stale here. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
