On Jan 24, 2008 3:47 PM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/24, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've been testing various forms of the new logo for use in the kernel > > framebuffer and I still think the best implementation is to use no > > logo at all. The inherint disadvatange is that more and more monitors > > are widescreen these days and that means the logo proportions are > > distorted (short and wide) in the framebuffer since standard vga > > settings use a 4:3 ratio. > > ehm, don't these users set some widescreen framebuffer modes anyway? > I mean - when no framebuffer is used (thus 80x25 text mode) - no logo > is visible anyway; > when framebuffer is used - users set widescreen mode anyway (if possible). > So I don't see a problem here. > With uvesafb included in 2.6.24 users can check if their BIOS supports > widescreen modes by > # cat /sys/bus/platform/drivers/uvesafb/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes
Thayer isn't talking about SUPPORT at all. He's saying that when a user uses a non 4:3 ration resolution, the logo is going to be stretched and ugly.
