[Splashy-users] Splasy tries to set invalid framebuffer mode

[Luis]

Ok, I added it to the FAQ section of the wiki:

http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/doku.php?id=faq#splashy_uses_the_wrong_resolution_at_boot_how_do_i_fix_this

On 11/16/06, Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for this tip Rob.
>
> This is worthy of adding to the Tips and Tricks section in the wiki.
>
> (Note, i'm cc'ing the splashy-users list so that others know about
> this as well).
>
> On 11/13/06, Rob Walker <rob at tenfoot.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 November 2006 15:29, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Now this is something that deserves investigating. As far as I know,
> > > the libdirectfb library that we use for Splashy, doesn't try to
> > > manipulate those settings unless you explicitly tell it to do so.
> > >
> > > One more thing, your card does support 95Hz, right? It's just that
> > > your monitor can't handle it. We do have code in Splashy that looks
> > > for the highest resolution supported by the card and uses that.
> > > However, I was under the impression that if you set the limit with
> > > your kernel parameters, that libdirectfb would not be able to go
> > > higher than that. I'm guessing that in the case of matroxfb, you are
> > > setting your default rate to 75Hz, but the card can go higher at any
> > > point. Perhaps Splashy needs a configuration in
> > > /etc/splashy/config.xml to tell it up to what resolution it should be
> > > attempting to work.
> > >
> > > I'll add this to our TODO file for investigation. Though it will be
> > > hard for us to reproduce your setup. We all use vesafb since that is
> > > known to work flawlessly.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > I've had another look at this.  It appears that when splashy asks DirectFB to
> > select a video mode by  width x height, DirectFB chooses the first one listed
> > in /etc/fb.modes that matches the desired size. With the
> > default /etc/fb.modes shipped in debian, the first 1280x1024 mode
> > is "1280x1024, 43 Hz, Interlaced", which my monitor can't handle (not really
> > surprising).  Moving the 1280x1024 @ 75Hz mode that I want to the top
> > of /etc/fb.modes means that DirectFB sets the correct mode and splashy works
> > OK.
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > --
> > Rob Walker <rob at tenfoot.org.uk>
> > http://www.tenfoot.org.uk
> >
>
>
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> Luis Mondesi
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> plata como ganancia; y el tenerla como producto, [mejor] que el oro
> mismo" (Prov 3:13-14).
>


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Luis Mondesi
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"Feliz el hombre que ha hallado sabiduria y el hombre que consigue
discernimiento, porque el tenerla como ganancia es mejor que tener la
plata como ganancia; y el tenerla como producto, [mejor] que el oro
mismo" (Prov 3:13-14).