From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Otto Solares Subject: Re: FBDEV updates. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:40:00 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030816024000.GA11710@guug.org> References: <1060990952.881.89.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060990952.881.89.camel@gaston> List-Id: Cc: James Simmons , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:42:32AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > 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... It could be really cool if in sysfs be a file with video modes, something like this: 1024x768x24@80 1024x768x24@60 800x600x24@60 600x400x16@75 and other file named current_mode (or something) with the current setting, you just echo a value there and bingo, a video mode change with the desired refresh rate, is that hard? EDID and modedb can help us here. Don't you think? -solca