# Re: mono, gray and index configs

- From: Geert Uytterhoeven \<geert@linux-m68k.org\>
- Date: 2005-08-22 17:20:18 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2005/08/13455427
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2005/08/13455364/t.md

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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> > No, you cut the following line:
> > 
> > | var.activate |= FB_ACTIVATE_TEST;
> 
> Sorry. I was shorting and I went too far.
> 
> > which will cause the driver to check whether the mode is valid (or can be made
> > valid by rounding up).
> 
> Ah well that sounds more like was thinking of.  Is FB_ACTIVATE_TEST
> new from 2.4 -> 2.6?

It's been there from the beginning (i.e. from 1994). In fact very little was
changed in the public (userspace) fbdev interface since then :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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