From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: resizing results. Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:10:37 +1100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1079395837.1968.194.camel@gaston> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B32Fz-0004wr-0v for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:16:31 -0800 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=root) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30) id 1B32Fx-0003Nk-GS for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:16:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: Linux Fbdev development list 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. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click