From: Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.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: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:40:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030816024000.GA11710@guug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1060990952.881.89.camel@gaston>
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:42:32AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >
> > 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...
It could be really cool if in sysfs be a file with
video modes, something like this:
1024x768x24@80
1024x768x24@60
800x600x24@60
600x400x16@75
and other file named current_mode (or something) with the
current setting, you just echo a value there and bingo,
a video mode change with the desired refresh rate, is that
hard? EDID and modedb can help us here.
Don't you think?
-solca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-16 2:45 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
2003-08-16 2:40 ` Otto Solares [this message]
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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