On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 10:33:17 +0200
Richard Brown
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 19:04, Felix Miata
wrote: fbset is a tool used for troubleshooting in forums and mailing lists. Google hits that use it are useless on openSUSE, because it was dropped from standard repos roughly 3 years ago. Installed from a discontinued repo shows:
I'm not sure if this is a request or a statement of fact, but if it is intended as stating facts, your facts are incorrect and incomplete.
fbset was not removed 3 years ago, but 6 years
The maintainer did so with a comment stating that it was made obsolete by KMS and other tools
Unfortunately, in those 6 years KMS was not implemented on all graphics drivers which mean you may still need fbset for some more obscure ones. For KMS drivers there used to be some kmset utility which is not packaged either. Using some sysfs file might work as well. For reading the resolution on non-KMS drivers you can use some /proc or /sys file but for setting it fbset may be needed. That said, I am not aware of any driver that supports changing resolution and does not support KMS except maybe something like uvesafb. Thanks Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org