resizing results.

resizing results.

[James Simmons]

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.




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Re: resizing results.

[Chad A Daelhousen]

At Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:38:46PM +0000, 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.

Say, if one replaces an 8x16 font with an 8x8 one on 1280x1024,
shouldn't the number of rows double (64 to 128), and the vertical size
remain the same? Trying to go to 1280x512 doesn't make much sense to me.

Or is that not what you meant? I'm rather confused.

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Chad Daelhousen
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Re: resizing results.

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, James Simmons wrote:
>    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.

It depends: from a text console point of view, changing the font doesn't change
the number of columns and rows.

However, from a graphics point of view, changing the font can change the number
of columns and rows, since the display resolution is constant.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: resizing results.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

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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Re: resizing results.

[James Simmons]

> I don't agree. As a user, if I change the font, I expect a row/col
> change rather than a resolution change...

I wanted to test out what the user wanted. 
 
> 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.

I'm working on those bugs right now. 



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