From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 06:58:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA9D16A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:58:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D3443D1D for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:58:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050129065818i9200q3sc6e>; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:58:18 +0000 Message-ID: <41FB3408.1040600@nbritton.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:58:16 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <41F81D0C.8090002@nbritton.org> <1106792421.623.7.camel@spirit> <1106938239.719.15.camel@genius2.i.cz> In-Reply-To: <1106938239.719.15.camel@genius2.i.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:46:40 +0000 Subject: Re: kern/71142; VESA 1024x768 @ the console X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:58:19 -0000 Michal Mertl wrote: >Xin LI wrote: > > >>(CC'ed to dsnofe as he has shown interest of this) >> >>Yes, a patchset candidate is available at: >> >>http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa >> >>This is what I am running with, minus a moused rc.d script patch which >>can be found in the original PR. >> >>Unfortunately I sometimes get odd reboots when trying to start GNOME >>without any panics/coredumps, and attaching a USB mouse will clear the >>screen with a claim that "Inappropriate ioctl" or something similiar. >> >>I will commit the patch if there's no apparent problems with it. >> >> > >I have also modified the original patch a bit. The main difference in my >version is that I support any mode vesa bios in your card does. > >Patch against current from October attached. I can help you finding and >possibly merging the differences. I think we really should add 8 bit >support - the only think needed is to be able to programm the palette. >The high/true color modes are pretty slow even on modern hardware. If >there's interest I think I can add it. > > > I personally have been using the patch set that was posted by Deng XueFeng: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-08/att-2992/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz I have not had any major problems (only minor, like the moused error and console sluggishness) with it and have it running on my main desktop (MODE_282, 1280x1024x16), 3 servers, and 2 laptops (MODE_279) which are running RELENG_5_3. I've made a ghetto batch script to apply this patch: cd /tmp rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz rm -r current-vesa_patch tar -zxvf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons patch