From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 7: 9: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.abacus.co.uk (mailgate.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F0437B42C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abacus.co.uk (pcantony.bl.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.111]) by mailgate.abacus.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09384; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:42:47 +0100 Message-ID: <39CB67ED.3D2A82D2@abacus.co.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:08:45 +0100 From: Antony T Curtis Organization: Abacus Polar PLC (UK) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-20000828-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Wheeler Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? References: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graham Wheeler wrote: > Anyway, my question is this: is anyone working on a similar frame buffer > driver for FreeBSD? I've written a VESA framebuffer XFree86 3.3.6 driver - it uses the VESA SysCons KLD. FreeBSD also has a VESA framebuffer console driver (which I am also using on my Compaq notebook) but the font it uses and how it's configured only gives you an 80 column display - I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to modify it... -- ANTONY T CURTIS Tel: +44 (1635) 36222 Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd Fax: +44 (1635) 38670 > McGowan's Madison Avenue Axiom: >  If an item is advertised as "under $50", you can bet it's not > $19.95. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message