On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Andreas Reich wrote:

> Hello GGI gurus,
>
> this is my first post here. GGI is great 8-)
>
> However, I have a small problem with it. If I try to use multiple
> frames on fbdev target, SetMode fails.
> There should be enough memory:
>
> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe2000000, mapped to 0xc2802000, size 16384k
>
> 800*600*24*2F fails though. (And 800*600*3*2 is 2880k, apparently much
> less than 16384k :)
>
> Any hints?

The reason why ggiSetMode() fails, is when you try to set another video
mode you get at boot time. That's no GGI and no fbdev limitation.
It's a vesa limitation. Vesa requires to run in real mode to have
direct access to the BIOS and that is only available at boot time.

Hope that helps.


CU,

Christoph Egger
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