From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272414AbTHOXnq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:43:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272426AbTHOXnq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:43:46 -0400 Received: from AMarseille-201-1-4-67.w217-128.abo.wanadoo.fr ([217.128.74.67]:10794 "EHLO gaston") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272414AbTHOXnp (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:43:45 -0400 Subject: Re: FBDEV updates. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: James Simmons Cc: Otto Solares , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1060990952.881.89.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 16 Aug 2003 01:42:32 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.