[Qemu-devel] Re: [5309] Reintroduce TEXT_CONSOLE_FIXED_SIZE and TEXT_CONSOLE for resizable vc's.

[andrzej zaborowski]

2008/11/2 Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>:
> Ryan Harper wrote:
>> * Andrzej Zaborowski <address@hidden> [2008-09-23 22:37]:
>>> Revision: 5309
>>>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5309
>>> Author:   balrog
>>> Date:     2008-09-24 03:32:33 +0000 (Wed, 24 Sep 2008)
>>>
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Reintroduce TEXT_CONSOLE_FIXED_SIZE and TEXT_CONSOLE for resizable vc's.
>>>
>>> This partially reverts r4812 to fix an issue highlighted by Ryan Harper
>>> with all vc's being fixed size which prevented backends with resizable
>>> window (curses) from displaying okay.
>>
>> Excellent!  This fixed -curses mode for me.
>>
>
> ...but it breaks setting the monitor etc. consoles to reasonable sizes
> in case the graphical console is too small (e.g. the Musicpal uses
> 384x192 pixels). Is there no way to address both issues?

-monitor vc:800x600 should cause the monitor to be
TEXT_CONSOLE_FIXED_SIZE, i.e. like before this commit.  Maybe
vc:80Cx25C should be default for all text consoles when using SDL and
for -curses vc should be default (currently the default is a mix).

Cheers