From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: FBDEV updates. Date: 16 Aug 2003 01:42:32 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1060990952.881.89.camel@gaston> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Cc: Otto Solares , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list > > Will do. I like to also handle Video mode change. Even userland will like > to know when a mode change happened. For userland a signal can be sent. > This would be useful for someone in X that runs fbset in a Xterm. This > hoses the X server. It would be nice if the X server would see the signal > change and adapt to it. Fbset could in theory be used again to change a VC > size. Yuck!!!! But it is what people want. And for good reasons as we still have to deal with cases where neither the driver nor modedb knows what the monitor supports... Ben.