Re: Framebuffer Driver

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 20:19, Кирилл Иванов wrote:
> Hello
> My name is Kirill.
> I'am not professional programmer, but wrote framebuffer driver for
> my Cyberblade/i1 (Trident Microsystems) videocard.
> Driver work, but with troubles.
>
> Mode is only one for now -- 640x480-8@85.
> When module (i wrote it as module) loaded, kernel reports:
>
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
>
> Yes, console have 30 lines and 80 columns, but this 80 columns
> is very stretched over hirisontal. And font is very big and greasy
> and stretched too, although i set fb.fontname == "font_vga_8x16".
> So, image of console looks like zoomed.

If you do see 80 chars in the horizontal and 30 lines of text, maybe that
is the normal appearance, especially if you have a very large display?  Also
if your monitor does not have a 4:3 aspect ratio, then the fonts could
appear stretched.

Why not try a higher resolution instead, at least 1024x768?

If you think the problem is different, why not post a link with a screenshot
of the console?

BTW, have you tried using other apps, such as X, fbtest, etc, and still
see the same problem?

Tony




-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting
Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time
by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc.
Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl