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
> 
>