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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:01:02 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: framebuffers?
Message-ID:  <20040123190102.GA8376@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
References:  <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>

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In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said:
> Hello, 
> 
> I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in 
> FreeBSD too.  
> 
> I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with "options VESA" 
> enabled.  Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf: 
> 	font8x8="/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt"
> 	allscreen_flags="132x43"
> and rebooted, but it still doesn't work.  

Try VESA_132x43.  I'm not sure why all the modes aren't just WxH.  Your
card also needs to be able to support that vesa mode; you can run
"vidcontrol -i mode | grep T" to list the text modes your card can do.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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