pm2fb_set_par(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, meet pm2fb_set_par(9) from the Kernel API Manual — the function whose entire name line is pm2fb_set_par - Alters the hardware state. it’s giving “I alter the hardware state” and honestly? iconic 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int pm2fb_set_par (struct fb_info *info );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• info — the frame buffer structure that represents a single frame buffer. literally the main character struct for one single framebuffer, no cap 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Using the fb_var_screeninfo in fb_info, we set the resolution of the this particular framebuffer. yes bestie, “the this” is right there in the original — we are not fixing the grammar, we are respecting the lore 😭✨

So the vibe check is: it alters the hardware state, and it does that by using the fb_var_screeninfo inside fb_info to set the resolution of this particular framebuffer. periodt 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/video/fbdev/pm2fb.c — go peek, iykyk 🔥

• pm2fb_setcolreg(9)
• pm2fb_pan_display(9)
• pm2fb_blank(9)
• pm2fb_probe(9)
• pm2fb_remove(9)

source/version: ./drivers/video/fbdev · date: October 2026 — that’s the cute lil sign-off, mwah 💖🧚