From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261172AbULWHe0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:34:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261173AbULWHe0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:34:26 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:53957 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261172AbULWHeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:34:23 -0500 Subject: Re: Radeonfb driver ignores video= when panel detected From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Erich Schubert Cc: Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <20041223021949.GA16681@wintermute.xmldesign.de> References: <20041223021949.GA16681@wintermute.xmldesign.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:33:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1103787216.29975.8.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.