Bug 427092 – sys-apps/fbset may provide /etc/fb.modes

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michael Weber (RETIRED) 2012-07-18 13:28:13 UTC]

Hi,

I'm currently working on www-client/netsurf, an small (graphical) web browser with framebuffer console support.
It depends on dev-libs/libnsfb -> media-libs/libsdl, which has an 
SDL-1.2.15/src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbvideo.c:#define FB_MODES_DB  "/etc/fb.modes"

netsurf does not start w/o this /etc/fb.modes.

I successfully tried one included in dev-libs/DirectFB as /usr/share/doc/DirectFB-1.4.9-r1/fb.modes.bz2.

sys-apps/fbset itself ships 
  /usr/share/doc/fbset-2.1/fb.modes.ATI.bz2
  /usr/share/doc/fbset-2.1/fb.modes.Falcon.bz2
  /usr/share/doc/fbset-2.1/fb.modes.NTSC.bz2
  /usr/share/doc/fbset-2.1/fb.modes.PAL.bz2

I found debian providing an /etc/fs.modes via it's fbset package
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/amd64/fbset/filelist
(copied to my site as http://xmw.de/mirror/fb.modes )

Would it make sense to place one general fb.modes into /etc (via fbset) or does it rely on the graphics cards involved? 

I'm adding and elog messages to netsurf about the situation and ask the user to add this file.

Thanks

[Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) 2012-07-18 21:23:17 UTC]

Archlinux ships the fb.modes.ATI from fbset-2.1 as /etc/fb.modes [1].

[1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/fbset