Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:44:14 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Framebuffer driver? Message-ID: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com>
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Hi all In my neverending quest to get my lousy Compaq laptop's Synaptics touch pad to work (a problem with which many of you are now familiar!), I finally got around to installing Linux (Mandrake 7.1) a week ago. The jury is still out on whether this is going to solve my problems - I have found a kernel patch that seems to help, but I'm playing with too many variables right now and need some time to be more systematic - but in the process, I've found one feature of Linux that I really like, which may be enough for me to keep using it on the laptop over FreeBSD. 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 imagine this makes X run more slowly, as it fails to use any hardware acceleration, but with a nice console like that my need for X is much reduced. There are a couple of other nice aspects - doing a `halt' actually powers down the laptop, which isn't the case with FreeBSD (but maybe I've just not configured apm properly on FreeSBD?). On the other hand, I've failed thus far to get my sound (VIA82C686A) to work, while it worked great on FreeBSD. Anyway, my question is this: is anyone working on a similar frame buffer driver for FreeBSD? regards gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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