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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Fbdev development list 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: FBDEV updates.
Date: 16 Aug 2003 01:42:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060990952.881.89.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308152319570.30952-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>


> 
> Will do. I like to also handle Video mode change. Even userland will like 
> to know when a mode change happened. For userland a signal can be sent. 
> This would be useful for someone in X that runs fbset in a Xterm. This 
> hoses the X server. It would be nice if the X server would see the signal 
> change and adapt to it. Fbset could in theory be used again to change a VC 
> size. Yuck!!!! But it is what people want.

And for good reasons as we still have to deal with cases
where neither the driver nor modedb knows what the monitor supports...

Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-15 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-14 19:54 FBDEV updates James Simmons
2003-08-14 20:36 ` Otto Solares
2003-08-14 20:52   ` James Simmons
2003-08-15  8:40     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-08-15 22:31       ` James Simmons
2003-08-15 23:42         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-08-16  2:40           ` Otto Solares
2003-08-14 23:16   ` Greg KH
2003-08-15 22:37     ` James Simmons
2003-08-15 23:54       ` Greg KH
2003-08-16  6:01 ` Sven Schnelle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-20  1:40 FBdev updates Lawrence Lee (Shanghai)
2003-02-20  1:09 James Simmons
2003-02-20  1:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-20  1:22   ` James Simmons
2003-02-20 15:02 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-20 15:07   ` James Simmons
2003-02-20 18:29   ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-02-20 19:03     ` Jurriaan
2003-02-20 19:58     ` James Simmons
2003-02-21  1:45       ` David S. Miller
2003-02-20 15:10 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-06-18 20:16 fbdev updates James Simmons
2002-06-18 20:22 ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-05 16:39 James Simmons
2002-06-05 16:50 ` Russell King

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