Re: Some questions

[Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 03:02, James Simmons wrote:
> > Yes, this is a limitation of stty.  It calls con_resize twice (one for
> > row and another for cols, depending on the order of the options) so it
> > will not work if the driver only supports a fixed set of modes.  Another
> > reason to bring back fbset resizing.
> 
> ???? stty rows 128 cols 48 works for me. It should'nt calling con_resize 
> twice. 
> 

It does.  You probably won't notice it if the driver supports flexible
video mode changing.  For drivers that don't it will fail.  For
instance, if a driver supports 800x600 and 1024x768 only, and stty is
used to change the mode from 1024x768 to 800x600, it will be done like
this:

resize to 800x768 <--- because no mode matches this, resizing fails
resize to 800x600

If you don't believe me, do an strace stty cols 80 rows 30.

Tony



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