Re: X 4.1.0 0pre1v1.3 debs on pismo (not working)
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.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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