From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 7:28:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F316637B42C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA10730; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:28:14 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 10727; Fri Sep 22 16:27:13 2000 Message-ID: <39CB6CB5.4DB77A68@cequrux.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:29:09 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antony T Curtis Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? References: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com> <39CB67ED.3D2A82D2@abacus.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Antony T Curtis wrote: > > I've written a VESA framebuffer XFree86 3.3.6 driver - it uses the VESA > SysCons KLD. This is presumably unrelated to the Xfree86 4.0 framebuffer driver? > 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... Is this syscons itself, or some other replacement driver, that you're referring to? On a completely different note, what sort of touch pad do you have, and do you have any problems with it? I suspect that I may have faulty hardware, but it behaves much worse under UNIX (where I effectively get random key clicks) to under Windows (where the worst that happens is the cursor occasionally jumping) - although this could be attributed to the Windows driver using absolute mode with 6-byte packets which may make framing errors easier to detect. -- 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