Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:47:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2) |
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Tuomas Heino wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > 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'. > > > > If so, it has been that not all the lines on the screen was used. > > Linux has *never* been able to change the actual line count on > > different screens.
`Linux' may have not, but `Linux/m68k' has been during the last 2 years!
> Maybe so in the kernel level - I still remember switching between 80x25 > "normal" console and 80x50 dosemu... that's just a font change, no timing > changes... (nowadays using svgatextmode - different modes for different > consoles would prolly be quite complicated with something like that, right?;)
It's not _that_ difficult. We did it.
It's also nice for multi-head support, since you don't want to use the same size of console on a 14" and a 17" monitor. Yes, `Linux/m68k' does support this too!! ;-)
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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