From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 19:15:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98F9337B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9151 invoked by uid 0); 23 Sep 2000 02:15:41 -0000 Received: from p3ee21652.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.82) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 23 Sep 2000 02:15:41 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12908 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:41:52 +0200 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:41:52 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? Message-ID: <20000922214152.C5065@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com> <20000922165222.F10538@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000922165222.F10538@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>; from past@netmode.ntua.gr on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 04:52:22PM +0300 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 16:52 +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:44:14PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > > > [ ... Linux' fb driver (VGA text modes) ... ] > > > > That feature is the VESA framebuffer driver for the console, > > which allows me to run my 800x600 LCD screen as a 100x35 > > console, with a very readable font (better than any of the > > ones I've used on FreeBSD at 80x25). I > > Have you tried vidcontrol VESA_800x600 or vidcontrol 132x60 > under FreeBSD? It does turn on the 800x600 video mode. But it still leaves the ugly 80x25 text mode running in a smallish window, leaving the less comfortable to read text font, having a lot of unused border space around the actual text screen. At least that what it does here (seen on several notebooks, whenever I get my hands on these I have them running FreeBSD for a while -- until they leave and are to do some other things:). Unless I missed something really obvious, there's no such thing as a 100x37 or 100x40 text mode in FreeBSD. My search at the FreeBSD website only pointed towards X related topics or splash screen logos. But I would be happy to be proved wrong. :> The magic Linux word is "fbset" which provides the ability to configure text modes accessed very much in the way X "modelines" work. This means that virtually _anything_ is possible. The other advantage is that fb mode might be slower than native gpaphics chipset acceleration, but the Xfb server runs *everywhere* -- just like the ancient Xmono server did, even if the VGA server refused to work. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message