Re: Sane behavior of fbset

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:00, jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org wrote:
> > I still think (didn't I repeat it often enough) that the whole idea
> > of stty "inventing" modes based on console size is broken. We simply
> > can't rely on good enough monitor detection & mode list building to
> > be able to pick proper modes. Not only our code is far from ready for
> > that, but it will also call all sort of problems to users (remember
> > you monitors that need different subtle geometry settings for each
> > different mode you use ?)
> > 
> > It may have looked like a nice idea, but I think it's just wrong.
> 
> Its a POSIX standard. You need to yell at them. 

I don't remember seeing anything in POSIX regarding tweaking monitor
video modes ;)

> > fbset sends an ioctl straight to the fbdev, and doesn't update fbcon
> > at the moment. The callback mecanism I added for power management
> > should allow to restore 2.4 functionality there, but this has not
> > been implemented yet afaik.
> 
> It will be added back. I didn't merge the one from before because it had 
> problems. 
-- 
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>



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