[Arm-netbook] My framebuffer and X.org piss me off

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Michelle Konzack
<linux4michelle at tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> can someone hold my hand and play a little  bit  Tech-Support  before  I
> commit suicid?
>
> I use a Atmel AT91SAM9263 and of course my TI Sitara AM3517.
>
> Both are working fine with my Formike KWH040GM05-F2 (480x272; 16M) but  I
> have to recompile all to get the Display runing.
>
> Using the Formike KWH080KQ03-F2 (800x600; 16M) same thing...
>
> Today morning I have otten my new AU Optronics 19" (1280x1024; 16M) with
> touchscreen and now I do not want to to live anymore... This recompiling
> bullshit gaved me the rest after 11 1/2 hours...
>
> Can someone tell me HOW YOU setup the  frambuffer  to  use  a  different
> Display without recompiling the whole crap 1000 times?

 ok let's establish where you are:

 - are you using standard debian?
 - are you using standard apt-get install xserver-xorg
 - are you only compiling custom kernels?  if so, which source
repository, and can you supply the kernel config as well?

 there are options for framebuffer kernels to select different sizes,
_but_ it is dependent on the framebuffer driver!  so vesafb will take
the vga mode, and also you can specify size, frequency and number of
bits per pixel.  other framebuffers DO NOT have these options, so we
really need to know which framebuffer kernel driver you're using.

 it may be something as simple as there is just not enough memory to
run 1280x1024 @ 16M colours (24bpp), and you may need to do 1024x768 @
24bpp or 1280x1024 @ 16 or 15bpp.

 l.