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SubjectRe: Framebuffer updates.

> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 21:50, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > Try using stty. I see most people will continue to use fbset so I guess I
> > need to patch it up to do the right thing.
>
> Well, I don't like the fbdev magially picking modes like this,
> those modes may just not be supported by the display. At least,
> fbset allows me to setup the proper timings for 'special'
> displays like iMac fixed hoziontal frequency for example.
>
> Ultimately, we really need a "monitor" driver on top of the
> fbdev that does DDC/EDID when the low level fbdev can provide
> an i2c bus or EDID information via some different way and
> that can be tweaked to deal with special monitors when we
> know we are using these.

fbmon.c :-)

The code should work for PPC and I seen a patch for generic ix86 support.
No DDC stuff yet tho.


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