From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 7:28:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECE837B43C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA79896; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:58:22 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@guppy.dons.net.au) Received: (from darius@localhost) by guppy.dons.net.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8MESKZ00457; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:58:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius) Message-Id: <200009221428.e8MESKZ00457@guppy.dons.net.au> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:58:20 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: Graham Wheeler Subject: RE: Framebuffer driver? Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Sep-00 Graham Wheeler wrote: > 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. Try loading the VESA kld and playing with vidcontrol.. > 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, If you configure your kernel with the apm driver and enable it (apm -e 1), then you will be able to do 'shutdown -p now' which will power your machine down when its ready. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message