Re: How to test virtual resolution

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, York Sun wrote:
> Fbset can definitely change the resolution but it doesn't pan the
> screen. I looked around but didn't find an application takes advantage
> of the virtual resolution.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the panning test requires that you
manually enable a large virtual resolution before running fbtest.

E.g. `fbset -vxres 2000 -vyres 2000'

> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 21:17 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, sun york wrote:
> > > I was asked to add the support for virtual resolution for fsl_diu_fb. I
> > > don't know how to test it without X. It seems that fbcon can use the
> > > virtual resolution and pan around. Can someone shed some light on this?
> > 
> > You can try fbtest (CVS module FBdev/utlilities/fbtest on
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-fbdev).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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