Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] drm_fb_helper: Impossible to change video mode

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 10 March 2010 18:42, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> >> At the moment the problem with fbset is what to do with it in the
>> >> dual head case. Currently we create an fb console that is lowest
>> >> common size of the two heads and set native modes on both,
>> >
>> > Does that mean that fbset is supposed to work (set resolution) on drmfb?
>>
>> No we've never hooked it up but it could be made work.
>
> I had it to the point of almost working. I plan on working on getting it
> working again.
>
>> > Schemes which would make a multihead setup look like a single screen
>> > get complicated quite easily. Perhaps an option to turn off some
>> > outputs so that the native resolution of one output is used (instead
>> > of clone) would work.
>> >
>>
>> I've only really got two answer for this:
>>
>> (a) hook up another /dev/dri/card_fb device and use the current KMS
>> ioctls to control the framebuffer, have the drm callback into fbdev/fbcon
>> to mention resizes etc. Or add one or two info gathering ioctls and
>> allow use of the /dev/dri/control device to control stuff.
>>
>> (b) add a lot of ioctls to KMS fbdev device, which implement some sort
>> of sane multi-output settings.
>>
>> Now the second sounds like a lot of work if not the correct solution,
>> you basically needs a way to pretty much expose what the KMS ioctls
>> expose on the fb device, and then upgrade fbset to make sense of it all.
>
> Yuck. See my other post about what fbdev really means in its historical
> context. The struct fb_info really maps better to drm_crtc than to
> drm_framebuffer. In fact take the case of the matrox fbdev driver. It
> creates two framebuffer devices even tho it used one static framebuffer.
> What the driver does is splits the framebuffer in two and assigned each
> part to a CRTC.
>

So you get the layering naturally. On fbset - fbev layer you can
choose from the resolutions available in the current output setup, in
kmset or whatever - drm layer you can set up the outputs, merge
multiple outputs into single cloned fbdev or separate them, ..

It's obviously nice if you can set the resolution on all of fbcons,
fbdev and drm layers but getting it work on at least one layer with
proper propagation up and down also works. BTW I don't know any
application which sets linux console (or xterm for that matter)
resolution through the terminal API.

Thanks

Michal

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