Re: 2.6.19-rc4-mm2

Hello Charlotte,

     I have just noticed that the garbled X-server mode is different
than what I thought it was. rinfo->depth is 24, but rinfo->bpp is 32.
(measured in radeon_write_mode). I haven't yet thought through the
implications of this. I've been unable to get the display correct, but
I've been trying to fix the wrong mode.
     The console mode is ->depth==8, ->bpp==8, and presumably the same
when it's garbled, but I've been unable to reproduce the problem since
instrumenting the kernel.

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 09:01, Richardson, Charlotte wrote:

... Do you think I should submit
a patch that at least enables 24bpp for the chip I have where it
definitely does work? I'm sure that is overly restrictive, but I don't
know which ones work and which are broken at this point.

That sounds like a good idea to me, but I'm not very familiar with the
programming practices here.

...

If you get a chance before I do, you might look at what Xfree86 does -
they might have the workaround.

It looks like the X.org radeon driver doesn't support 24bpp.

-ajw