Re: Frame buffer device thinkings...
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:00:24 +0200 (CEST)
On 15 Sep 1998, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:
> > Since the kernel can't change the video mode anymore, the video mode
> > has to be the same for all VCs associated with one video board, so
> > it has to change for all VCs at once (can be done by fbmem.c). I
> > think that's acceptable.
>
> Unless I am being dense I would think this would not be so acceptable.
> Most of them would typically be in the same mode I agree. But even for
> the case where you have just one X server running on one VC and the
> rest text I would expect the text ones to run in an other mode as the
> lower resolutions are typically better at displaying readable text.
>
> Let alone if you were running an X server at 1600x?x16, some text
> consoles at 80x25 chars and a fb game at 640x480x16.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> Jan
>
> P.S. Of course if you want you could by with being able to scale text
> so it worked at any resolution and require graphics apps to reset the
> mode to whatever they want to be in the user swatches back to the VC.
For text consoles it's not that bad. I'm using the Sun 12x22 font on a 1152x900
screen.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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