Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:08:49 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Framebuffer updates. |
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> 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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