Re: Some questions

Do you remember how modes were set before the existence of fbset? I guess not
:-)

before my time.

A driver could support up to 31 modes (cfr. the old minors). You changed mode
by touch'ing the /dev/fb0my_favorite_mode special device that corresponded to
the mode you wanted.

Yuck!!!!
 

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userland database I often couldn't change video modes after booting. 

Ugh, those are serious driver bugs....

So the arrgument that fbset is the solution to all problems is bogus IMO.

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We should split the monitor programing stuff out from stuff like bpp etc.
Now if you think about it we can do things like change the bpp without 
having to redo the monitor programming. This is the flaw with the old and 
even the new api. 

You could have done that from the beginning. Just look at which fields have
changed and which haven't.

I should of but didn't because I knew driver would take teh path of lest 
resistance to port there drivers. TO much change would have made the 
current situtation much much worst. 



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