Re: help with consolupdate on modechange in driver

[Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:50:50PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > I have just implemented modechange in my driver and while it
> > > works, the consol *still* thinks we working in the old mode.
> > > 
> > > How do I inform the console layer that the driver (through fbset)
> > > have changed the actual mode on the screen?
> > 
> > rivafb has this same problem.
> 
> stty is the program you want to use to change the resolution on a tty. At 
> present fbset is not functioning. Patches are in the works to restore 
> this.

probably we would not need fbset anymore if drivers support sysfs
AND they export valid modes for the current card as the drivers know
far better that crappy /etc/fb.modes, any progress or this is not
the plan?

In other point, i am including fb.h from the latest development linux
kernel (2.6.0-test5-bk3) and is not suitable for use from userpace, here
is a tiny patch to fix it, but i am not sure if the struct fb_pixmap
is needed from userspace as i never have used it?

3a4,5
> #include <linux/tty.h>
> #include <linux/workqueue.h>
4a7
> #include <asm/io.h>
326,327d328
< #ifdef __KERNEL__
<
345a347
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
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< #include <linux/tty.h>
< #include <linux/workqueue.h>
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< #include <asm/io.h>

-solca



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