From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 17 16:55:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FC51540E for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 16:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01972; Mon, 17 May 1999 16:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905172352.QAA01972@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Kelly Yancey , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modex support (again) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 May 1999 08:53:10 +0900." <199905172353.IAA08926@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:52:12 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yes, it can be extended to support all graphics modes (except mode X > :-). But, how useful will it be? The VESA 800x600 raster text mode > was a kludge for some laptop systems, so it was justifiable. But, how > about others? 1024x768 mode can contain only 128 columns if we are to > use 8-dot wide font. This is not as good as 132 column text modes > provided by VESA. It's better than the 80 column text mode that is the best supported by many new VESA biossen. It'd also be good for the TGA console. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message