Re: Some questions

[Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> 
>>Antonino Daplas wrote:
>>
>>>>Ack. Is 16 fuzzy enough, what do you think?
>>>
>>>I think you should only accept modes where the difference is a fraction
>>>of a character width or height.  A difference more than that and
>>>clear_margins() will not work correctly.  
>>
>>How do I - from a low level fb driver - determine the character size?
> 
> 
> You cannot. That's called fbcon-fbdev separation.

My question was, basically, meant ironic.

But this is funny: You tell me that the difference should not exceed the 
fraction of a character, but it is impossible to find out how wide/tall 
characters are.

Guys, that won't work. I have to deal with LCD displays and TV output as 
well (not to say "mainly") and I can't just set up odd modes like 
800x592, or mode resolutions based on calculations with any possible odd 
font dimension.

Thomas

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