Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: VGA/Console stuff | Date | 1 Oct 1996 04:57:27 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960928115736.947A-100000@marshall.cs.unca.edu> By author: "Adam D. Bradley" <bradley@cs.unca.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Is there an easy kernel internal for determining the _physical_ scan lines > in the current video mode? (video_scan_lines is computed as > video_font_height * video_num_lines, it has no physical significance.) > Working on a console-beautification patch, needs to know if > physical_scan_lines%video_font_height==0. >
If that information was available, we would use it! However, losing a couple of scans at the bottom is usually no biggie; the opposite is bad, though.
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