On Mon, 2018-10-01 at 13:04 -0400, 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:
# rpm -qi fbset Name : fbset Version : 2.1 Release : 938.1.1 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Sun Dec 27 03:43:26 2015 Group : System/Console Size : 154781 License : GPL-2.0+ Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sat Jan 26 10:54:25 2013, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284 Source RPM : fbset-2.1-938.1.1.src.rpm Build Date : Sat Jan 26 10:54:03 2013 Build Host : build06 Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : http://users.telenet.be/geertu/Linux/fbdev/ Summary : Framebuffer Configuration Tool Description : FBSet can query and change console framebuffer settings.
Some framebuffers do not support this, such as the VESA framebuffer "vesafb".
# rpm -q --changelog fbset | head -n## * Thu Feb 16 2012 rschweikert@suse.com - place binaries in /usr tree (UsrMerge project)
* Fri Sep 30 2011 uli@suse.com - cross-build fix: use %__cc, %configure macros
Can it be brought back? Fedora and Debian still have it. From their changelogs:
* Fri Feb 23 2018 Florian Weimer
- 2.1-45 - Use LDFLAGS from redhat-rpm-config (via %set_build_flags) - Remove "rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}" - Remove "%defattr(-,root,root)" - Add gcc build requirement * Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering
- 2.1-44 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Aug 02 2017 Fedora Release Engineering
- 2.1-43 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild Get:1 gzip: fbset 2.1-29 Changelog fbset (2.1-29) unstable; urgency=medium
* QA upload. * Update to Linux kernel 4.10-rc4: - debian/doc/kernel-doc/: Sync. - debian/patches/01_kernel_fb.h.patch: Likewise. - debian/modes/fb.modes.viafb: Likewise. * Now using Standards-Version 3.9.8 (no changes needed). * Switch Vcs-Browser to a cgit URL. * Use https for hadrons.org URLs. * Switch debian/copyright to machine-readable format 1.0. * Switch to the dpkg makefile fragments in debian/rules. * Enable all hardening flags.
-- Guillem Jover
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:11:33 +0100 fbset (2.1-28) unstable; urgency=low
* Orphan package, set maintainer to Debian QA Group. * Switch to debhelper compatibility level 9. * Now using Standards-Version 3.9.5 (no changes needed).
-- Guillem Jover
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Cheers Martin