Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Some questions

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On 5 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > 3) The resizing using stty is - how do I put this - slightly imperfect.
> > I don't know how you fbdev folks do it, but I am not used to think in
> > row/col categories, but *resolutions* instead. Apart from this - IMHO a
> > bit annoying - inconvenience, this method has further issues:
> > 
> > a) Calculating the desired mode resolution my simply multiplying the
> > rows/cols by the font size very often results in odd modes like 800x592.
> > This even when using a standard 8x16 font, not thinking of situations
> > where for instance 12x22 fonts are used. How is the low level driver
> > supposed to handle this?
> 
> Ideally, the driver should round up to the nearest mode it's capable
> of.  The "fraction of a character dimensions" will be automatically
> cleared by the "clear_margins" hook.

But if I say e.g. `fbset 800x600-90', I do want a 90 Hz 800x600 mode, whatever
the font may be.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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