On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Camm Maguire wrote:
> >
> > Greetings! I've just discovered the impressive framebuffer/console
> > support in the stock 2.2 kernels, and had one question. One can
> > compile these as modules, but it seems that the code is unusable as
> > modules. Only by appending a vga= command line to the kernel at boot
> > time (e.g. via lilo) can one enable different console modes as well as
> > framebuffer support for X, AFAIK. Am I missing something?
>
> ...or use fbset
You can configure your X server for different modes as well.
P.S
I discovered that you in theory you could change a consoles mode via
/dev/tty with the TIOCSWINSZ. In tty_io.c all it does is send a signal to
all process on this tty that the video is to change. It doesn't :-(
Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.
James Simmons [jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org] ____/|
fbdev/console/gfx developer \ o.O|
http://www.linux-fbdev.org =(_)=
http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net U
http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net
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