[Nouveau] 4K ~ 3840x2160 resolution and frame buffer support

[James Lehman]

Thank you for your quick reply.

I have a Gigabyte GT-730 2GB card hooked directly via a high quality 
HDMI cable to a 65 inch Samsung curved screen LCD 4K monitor.

I'm not sure what I am looking for in dmesg and xorg log.

Please advise.

I have built the 3.19.8 kernel and enabled frame buffer support.

I can see 7 out of the 8 penguins when I boot.

My ultimate goal is to be able to boot to a 3840x2160 32 bit (frame 
buffer) console.

Then go into Xfce, or not, as needed.

I like to write frame buffer apps that run in the console.

Thank you.


On 10/08/2015 04:44 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> If you only get 1920x1080 in X, chances are that nouveau doesn't
> believe it can do 3840x2160 for one reason or another. There are a
> number of reasons why this might be the case, please provide dmesg,
> xorg log, and information on how the monitor is connected (including
> any A->B type adapters).
>
>    -ilia
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:21 PM, James Lehman <james at akrobiz.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I hope this is in the right place.
>>
>> I just built a new machine and installed Xubuntu and I'm still figuring
>> things out.
>>
>> I'm interested in working with The Linux Frame Buffer.
>>
>> Many years ago, I started a project called ezfb and I would like to continue
>> developing it on a machine capable of 4K.
>>
>> Is it possible to have a frame buffer that does 3840x2160 ?
>>
>> With nouveau installed as my video driver, I can get to a frame buffer
>> console of 1920x1080, but I am limited to that resolution in Xfce as well.
>>
>> With a proprietary nVidia driver installed I can get to 4K in Xfce, but my
>> frame buffer is 640x480, 4 bit color. When I try fbset to change anything,
>> it doesn't work.
>>
>> I have not even bothered to try my code so see of any of it can actually
>> work in the frame buffers I get.
>>
>> Still scratching my head....
>>
>> Thank you for your time.
>>
>> James.
>>
>>
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