Re: Extirpating framebuffer

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:17:11PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:12:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:06:13PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > > I could not find any reference about a special configuration for
> > > framebuffer.
> > 
> > I had to fight with it a bit, as it doesn't work on all kinds of
> > framebuffer. Try '/usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay -test -debug' for some
> > slightly more verbose output. If you have the same kind of framebuffer I
> > do (a DirectColor one), then have a look at
> > <http://bugs.debian.org/154766>.
> 
> Thanks.  The result of /usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay -test -debug was
> 
> "This type of framebuffer is not supported."

Yep. If your framebuffer uses a DirectColor visual (look in 'fbset -i'),
then my patch in the bug report I mentioned above will magically
transform your framebuffer from unsupported into supported. :)

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]