Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR vs.FB_VISUAL_DIRECTCOLOR

[Antonino A. D. <ad...@gm...>]

James Lehman wrote:
> But if I leave the fb at 8 bpp and my code changes the bpp at runtime to 32,
> it looks like the first 16 console colors have been written into the color
> map.
> 

Try switching the VC to KD_GRAPHICS mode before you run your app. Then
switch it back to KD_TEXT on exit, ie:

fd = open("/dev/tty0", FLAG);
ioctl(fd, KDSETMODE, KD_GRAPHICS);

Let me know if doing the above still writes the console palette to the
cmap. That will be a bug.

Tony