David Gerard wrote: > 2009/10/27 Yan Seiner <[email protected]>: > > >> This particular laptop is ISA with a couple of PCMCIA 1 (16 bit) slots. >> The video is on the ISA bus. >> The chips driver (1.2.1 and 1.2.2) doesn't work in this configuration at >> all, exiting with the error given previously. >> However, the VESA driver works just fine. It assumes a 24 bit depth and >> fails as the hardware only supports 8 bits. Once it's told to use >> defaultdepth of 8, it correctly sees the C&T chipset and initializes the >> screen just fine. >> > > > Can this sort of thing be detected and special-cased? (Should it? > Would this be an appropriate method of supporting ye crusty olde > chips?) > Not sure if the effort is worth it for 15 year old hardware.... Wouldn't surprise me if I'm one of less than a dozen who still has this stuff in working order.
OTOH, X is being used more and more on embedded platforms, so it wouldn't hurt to have a "DefaultDepth" fallback - if 24 doesn't work, try 16, if that doesn't work, try 8. --Yan -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ A day may come (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ when the courage of men fails, (_)\(_) ,>/'_ when we forsake our friends and break all (_)\(_) bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. It is not this day! This day we ride! _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
