Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Some questions

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

On 6 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 00:17, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> > Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > >> > Strange.  If you boot at 800x600, the console will compute that as
> > >> > 100x37.  On fbcon_resize, it will request 800x592 but because the
> > >> > difference is only 8, fb_set_var should be skipped, so no mode change
> > >> > should happen throughout.
> > >>
> > >>But it definitely does. I can see this on my LCD (which goes dark during 
> > >>mode changes) and, of course, the log.
> > 
> > Just check this with the newest versions from fbdev at bk. In my code 
> > (which is, as I said in the beginning, the stock 2.5.63 kernel), 
> > fbcon_resize does NO check whatsoever. It stupidly calls set_var().
> 
> Of course.  My tree is so modified that I forgot that Jame's latest
> patch was not yet applied to the main tree :-)
> > 
> > I think that might be one reason for what I see :)
> 
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz

Note that this patch is dated Feb 20. In the mean time James applied at least
your accel_putcs() optimizations and my logo updates.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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