From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 21:13:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A086116A4CF for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:13:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.vsnl.net (smtp2.vsnl.net [203.200.235.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5613F43D1F for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from torahuls@vsnl.com) Received: from vsnl.com ([127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.vsnl.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTG003R9ZUEM7@smtp2.vsnl.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:43:27 +0530 (IST) Received: from ([219.65.80.2]) by smtp2.vsnl.net (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall Unix); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:43:27 +0530 (IST) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:47:43 +0000 From: Rahul Sawarkar In-reply-to: <44isi0857m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> To: Lowell Gilbert Message-id: <403888CF.5040703@vsnl.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040107 Thunderbird/0.4 References: <40378876.2090808@vsnl.com> <44isi0857m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: framebuffer fro freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:13:30 -0000 Have you tried switching to 1024x768 mode using vidcontrol. I tried and did not suceed on my last hardware which was a mvp4 chipset with an 8mb blade3d graphics. Right now I have a radeon 7500 on a 440bx chipset. I'd assumed it wouldn't work, this time around also (ref: the url below), but maybe I should give it a try. So anyways I figured, maybe a framebufer driver would enable switching.... Thanks for any tips on this front. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-June/009789.html Please cc to me as I am not subscribed. thanks Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Rahul Sawarkar writes: > > >>is there a framebuffer port for freebsd? >> i want to run my console in 1024x768. > > > Why would you want a framebuffer for that? > Do you have frame grabber hardware or something? > > If all you want is a 1024x768 video mode driving the > text console, vidcontrol(1) can do that, but I don't > understand the connection to a frame buffer... >