From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 7:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FAD37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11507; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:20:53 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39CB6AC5.D2ABD0DC@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:20:53 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, 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 Hello Graham, > 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. You can use any X-Server (including the accelerated ones) atop the framebuffer-device on Linux. No need to use the X-Framebuffer-Server. > 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?). Look at the -p option of shutdown. Works well for me and I also heard this from other guys here on the list. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message