2008/1/24, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. >
When a user uses a non 4:3 ratio resolution - (s)he would better use widescreen framebuffer mode. That's what I've said. The logo will NOT be distorted in that case. I see no reason to use 4:3 framebuffer mode on a 5:4 or 16:10 display - IMHO it's better not to use the framebuffer at all in that case. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
