From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: resizing results.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:10:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079395837.1968.194.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403151732090.19671-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 04:38, James Simmons wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I have been doing some work on cleaning up and debugging the resize
> issue of fbcon. The first think I discovered where I never paid attention
> to before was that the number of columns and rows change you you run
> setfont. Isn't this wrong. The number of rows and columns should remain
> the same. Only the font size chaneg which causes a console resolution
> change.
I don't agree. As a user, if I change the font, I expect a row/col
change rather than a resolution change...
Note that the resolution change code doesn't work properly anyway,
not until we have proper code to look for a matching mode along with
monitor detection in drivers, which we don't have.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-16 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-15 17:38 resizing results James Simmons
2004-03-15 19:34 ` Chad A Daelhousen
2004-03-15 21:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-03-16 0:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-03-16 0:52 ` James Simmons
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