On Jan 24, 2008 3:47 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/1/24, Thayer Williams <thayerw@gmail.com>:
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.