[Splashy-users] splashy and Graphics Card's native fb driver

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 16:51 -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> Mind you this only works if I boot pass the parameter for my fbdriver 
> as video=gxfb:640x480-24 at 60 i.e. the boot splash will show if I boot
> my fb 
> driver with 640X480 resoluton. If I boot with
> video=gxfb:1024x768-24 at 60 it 
> does not even starts.
> 

It seems that this driver is not well supported by directfb, the main
framebuffer library that splashy uses.

> According to the splashy wiki 
> http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/doku.php?id=faq It seems I can
> make 
> splashy program to use my own Graphics Card's framebuffer driver. But
> it my 
> case I am not able to do it as explained above.

Yep it's true. But the problem seems to be at lower level: the library
has problem dealing with your framebuffer driver IMHO
> 
> Also, if I boot my kernel with vga=791 everything works fine, but then
> this 
> kernel does not my Graphics Card's fb driver which I really want to
> use.

You said that vesa didn't work. Is it working now? Did you use a custom
kernel before?
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