From: Brian Julin <bri@forcade.calyx.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:38:39 -0500 (EST)

Re: C&T driver

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, James Simmons wrote:
> Damn it. Fix that! If someone doesn't I will. Go in fbcon-kgi.c and change
> kgicon_bpp = 1 to kgicon_bpp = 8. It will work then. I hgave a idea to fix
> this once and for all.

Umm, it used to be that way, and we changed it to 1 because the vga can't
do 8bpp above 320x200 without bank switching; everyone was trying to 
run at 80x25,8x16 8bpp and it was hosing the machine.

We _really_ should go all out to make kgicon.o work right for new users 
-- unfortunately there are quite a few ways to screw it up.  IMO kgicon
should check for what buffer layouts have been compiled into the 
kernel and try the best one available, and then if that checkmode fails,
try the next best bit depth and so on.  This should be the "dummy behavior"
and if the user actually explicitly states the depth there should be 
only one checkmode, at the requested depth.

--
P.C.M.C.I.A. stands for "Plastic Connectors May Crumble If Adjusted"
                                                                  -- me
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Brian S. Julin