Bug#487257: linux-image-2.6.24: SGI GBE framebuffer colormap broken
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:47:33AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> I am not sure about that. The colors with 2.6.18 are better than with
> current but still not quite what I would expect. Perhaps there are
> just not enough colors or perhaps the 2.6.18 default colormap is
> closer to what X would want to set.
2.6.18 is probably not much better, I was just lucky, when I tested
it. I've fixed the 8bit color modes and 16/32bit modes are working
with framebuffer console. What's still broken is X with 16/32bit
mode. This is probably because of the wrong endianess of the
framebuffer when mapped to user space by the X server. But that's
something the kernel can help much, because that's how the hardware
works and therefore fixing this in the X server makes much more
sense.
Thomas.
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