Radeonfb driver ignores video= when panel detected

Radeonfb driver ignores video= when panel detected

[Erich Schubert]

Hi,
both radeon drivers will ignore the command line options "video=" when
they detect a TFT panel. They will always use 8 bit color depth then.

I have a Thinkpad A31p with Radeon Mobility graphics.
Since I'd like to try out bootsplash/gensplash I'd like to run 16 bit
color depth. I needed to change this in the kernel
(in drivers/video/radeonfb.c: radeon_update_default_var(),
drivers/video/aty/radeon_monitor.c: struct ... radeonfb_default_var)
because the video= command line option that works fine on other boxes
with radeons I have doesn't work.

Did I miss some other option?

Greetings,
Erich Schubert
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Re: Radeonfb driver ignores video= when panel detected

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 03:19 +0100, Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
> both radeon drivers will ignore the command line options "video=" when
> they detect a TFT panel. They will always use 8 bit color depth then.
> 
> I have a Thinkpad A31p with Radeon Mobility graphics.
> Since I'd like to try out bootsplash/gensplash I'd like to run 16 bit
> color depth. I needed to change this in the kernel
> (in drivers/video/radeonfb.c: radeon_update_default_var(),
> drivers/video/aty/radeon_monitor.c: struct ... radeonfb_default_var)
> because the video= command line option that works fine on other boxes
> with radeons I have doesn't work.
> 
> Did I miss some other option?

No, you didn't, it's a problem that I'll fix after 2.6.10

Ben.