Bug 427092

Summary:	sys-apps/fbset may provide /etc/fb.modes
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Weber (RETIRED) <xmw>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	denilsonsa, games, spock
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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