usplash and alternate resolutions

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:27:12PM -0400, Bill Filler wrote:
> Hello,
> Does anyone know if there is work underway in usplash to support 
> resolutions such as 1024x600 and 1280x800 (without stretching the 
> image), which are proving to be quite common in the netbook space? If 
> not, any hints as to the efforts of adding this support would be 
> appreciated.

The most practical way of doing so would be to add code to parse the 
vesa mode list in an attempt to find a mode that matches the actual 
screen resolution, but a lot of hardware won't have this. Beyond that, 
wait for kernel modesetting support.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org