Re: fbset doesn't change resolution for all consoles

On 2005-04-25, Petr Vandrovec <[email protected]> wrote:
> As far as I can tell it behaves as designed.

Well, if fbset has an "--all" parameter which doesn't affect all
consoles...  I guess you mean that the current kernel fb support
is designed to not allow this, and it's just fbset which hasn't
been updated?

> If you are not satisifed, try some of matroxfb-* patches from
> http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/linux/matrox-latest (either
> matroxfb-2.6.10.gz, or upgrade to 2.6.12-rc3 and apply relevant
> matroxfb-2.6.12-rc3.gz).  This patch contains 2.4.x fbcon ported
> to 2.6.x fbdev layer, besides random matroxfb updates, and so
> fbset should work in a way you are used to after that.

Thanks. I've tried using the matroxfb-2.6.10 patch, but at some
points complains about tileops structure not being a complete
type. A grep in the subdirectory doesn't show where this structure
is being defined, so I don't know how to fix this:

In file included from /linux-2.6.10/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c:106:
/linux-2.6.10/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.h:519: error: field `tileops' has incomplete type
/linux-2.6.10/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c: En la función `initMatrox2':
/linux-2.6.10/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c:1980: error: structure has no member named `tileops'

matroxfb_accel complains too if I use "make -k".

> On Linus's 2.6.x you are supposed to use stty cols & rows to
> change resolution, and you are not supposed to change color depth.

I'm shocked. Is he going to ban changing color depth at all in the
future? Right now I boot into some vesa mode and need fbset to set
the same resolution with hardware acceleration to avoid it being
so sluggish. Is there a way to do this with stty rather than fbset?


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