Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Some questions

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

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> Antonino Daplas wrote:
> >>Ack. Is 16 fuzzy enough, what do you think?
> > I think you should only accept modes where the difference is a fraction
> > of a character width or height.  A difference more than that and
> > clear_margins() will not work correctly.  
> 
> How do I - from a low level fb driver - determine the character size?

You cannot. That's called fbcon-fbdev separation.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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