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Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal.
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal. |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:15:39 +0200 |
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"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
- FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Vincent Pelletier, 2005/07/03
- Re: [Bulk] FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Vincent Pelletier, 2005/07/03
- Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/07/04
- Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Vincent Pelletier, 2005/07/04
- Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal.,
Marco Gerards <=
- Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/07/05
- Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Marco Gerards, 2005/07/05
- [PATCH] FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Vincent Pelletier, 2005/07/12
- [PATCHv2] FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Vincent Pelletier, 2005/07/13
- Re: [PATCHv2] FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Marco Gerards, 2005/07/13
- Re: [PATCHv2] FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal., Vincent Pelletier, 2005/07/13