Subject: Re: can wscons and X handle changing video resolution?
To: Derek Peschel <dpeschel@eskimo.com>
From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/01/2002 11:48:54
isn't there a vidtune(sp?) app in linuxPPC that supports this? I
seem to remember one but the video card I was using didn't support
a lot of options so I don't recall if I was able to get much out
of it. Of course, it did actually work in linuxPPC <sigh>
Derek Peschel wrote:
> Someday I'd like to find out what the MacOS Monitors control panel is doing,
> and port that code to NetBSD. I don't like the idea of booting MacOS just
> to change the monitor resolutions. (There's also the problem of booting
> MacOS just to partition disks, but fixing that would probably take more
> work.)
>
> But, were wscons and X designed to reconfigure themselves when you
> change the resolution? I figure it would be good to ask before writing
> any code. :)
>
> -- Derek
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