Re: Some questions

On 5 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:

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3) The resizing using stty is - how do I put this - slightly imperfect.
I don't know how you fbdev folks do it, but I am not used to think in
row/col categories, but *resolutions* instead. Apart from this - IMHO a
bit annoying - inconvenience, this method has further issues:

a) Calculating the desired mode resolution my simply multiplying the
rows/cols by the font size very often results in odd modes like 800x592.
This even when using a standard 8x16 font, not thinking of situations
where for instance 12x22 fonts are used. How is the low level driver
supposed to handle this?

Ideally, the driver should round up to the nearest mode it's capable
of.  The "fraction of a character dimensions" will be automatically
cleared by the "clear_margins" hook.

But if I say e.g. `fbset 800x600-90', I do want a 90 Hz 800x600 mode, whatever
the font may be.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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