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Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal.


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal.
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:15:39 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

> No. Since the BIOS does not provide the geometry for each VGA mode, we must 
> maintain a table in that case. And, the table differs among video cards. So I 
> do not want to allow the user to change it to an arbitrary mode.
>
> What we really need is to support VESA. The screen of the VGA mode is too 
> small to do fancy stuff.

For VGA the first modes are all the same, so we can use a fixed
table.  For VESA modes we can get the width and height.  But that
should be done when setting the mode.

> BTW, is the VGA terminal working well? Since Marco changed the mode to 0x10 
> from 0x12, the screen is a bit smaller than before, and I'm not sure if the 
> menu entry editor works with this.

The menu should support all kinds of screen sizes anyway.  For example on the
PPC the text screen is really big.

--
Marco





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