From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kendall Bennett" Subject: Detecting if the mode can be changed? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:46:06 -0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3E77231E.31612.452CB5F@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from adsl-63-195-13-70.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net ([63.195.13.70] helo=mail.scitechsoft.com) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18vOuk-0004Au-00 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:46:30 -0800 Received: from KENDALLB (adsl-63-195-13-78.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.195.13.78]) by mail.scitechsoft.com (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h2ILkqPD016342 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:46:52 -0800 In-reply-to: <1047911032.2684.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-description: Mail message body Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Hi Guys, I am working on implementing code to use the framebuffer console, and I want to know in advance of calling FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO if the screen resolution and color depth can actually be changed at runtime or not. If the VESA driver is running, this ioctl() displays an error message on the screen, and I want to avoid this error message by knowing in advance if the ioctl() will work or not. Is there a flag or way to determine this? Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en