Re: Some questions

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:

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Antonino Daplas wrote:

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Ack. Is 16 fuzzy enough, what do you think?

I think you should only accept modes where the difference is a fraction
of a character width or height.  A difference more than that and
clear_margins() will not work correctly.  

How do I - from a low level fb driver - determine the character size?

You cannot. That's called fbcon-fbdev separation.

My question was, basically, meant ironic.

But this is funny: You tell me that the difference should not exceed the 
fraction of a character, but it is impossible to find out how wide/tall 
characters are.

Guys, that won't work. I have to deal with LCD displays and TV output as 
well (not to say "mainly") and I can't just set up odd modes like 
800x592, or mode resolutions based on calculations with any possible odd 
font dimension.

Indeed. That's why fbcon should adapt to fbdev, and not vice versa (IMHO).

I've always been a bit skeptical about the fbcon-driven fbdev-resizing...
I don't mind that you change the resolution or fontsize, but it should not
influence the fbdev too much.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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