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?) - d. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
