Increasing the frame buffer size

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Tue Jan 6 09:03:27 PST 2009


On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 08:54 -0800, Dirk Hohndel wrote:

> So the question is "can I increase the size of the framebuffer without
> restarting X?"  Or do I have to somehow force a larger virtual display
> to have enough space prereserved (I tried that in the config file, but
> a lot of things have changed since I was fluent writing config files,
> it seems... iow I didn't get it to work...)

I've built patches which automatically reallocate the frame buffer as
needed; they should be available after 2.6 ships.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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