more colours with atyfb?

[Steven Hanley <sjh@svana.org>]

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What can I do to get my display to use 24 bit (or 32 or 16 or 15) rather
than 8 bit colour? (pismo still)

I tried adding

append="video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,cmode:24"

to my yaboot.conf and rerunning ybin

now dmesg says

Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda10 ro video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,cmode:24 

the atyfb section still says

PCI: Enabling device 00:10.0 (0086 -> 0087)
aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Registered "ati" backlight controller, level: 5/15
fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on PCI
no framebuffer address found for
/pci@f0000000/ATY,RageM3pParent@10/ATY,RageM3pB


which is exactly what it said before

and when I try to run the fbdev X server in 24 bit colour it has the error

(**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode
(--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: ATY Rage128
(--) FBDev: Video memory: 8192K @ 0xa4000000
(--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 7K @ 0xa0000000
(--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 24
(--) FBDev: Unknown hardware accelerator type 32
(--) FBDev: No driver support for hardware acceleration
bpp = 24, depth = 24, BitsPerRGB = 8

Fatal server error:
Can't handle packed pixels with 24 bits per pixel

I have downloaded X 4.02 and the rsync xfree86 thing from penguinppc.org,
however in 8 bit mode at least this seems fast enough for now and all, will
maybe try the 4.* X stuff sometime later (after all compiling it and
installing it with no debs is a pain)

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