Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 1997 15:48:04 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2) |
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On 14 Dec 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971213194834.90L-100000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> > By author: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Didn't Linux have that back when having different # of lines in different > > VTs? (In a more limited form, naturaly, since the modes on different VTs > > were, well, less different). > > Linux has never had different number of lines on different VTs.
Are you sure? There used to be a comment about this in drivers/char/console.c. It said the feature was removed because `it's messy to have all consoles of potentially different sizes'.
In my tree it reads (since a very long time :-):
| /* | * ++Geert: Change # of rows and columns for one specific console. | * Of course it's not messy to have all consoles of potentially different | * sizes, except on PCish hardware :-) | */ | void vc_resize_con(unsigned long lines, unsigned long cols, | unsigned int currcons)
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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