From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 23 3:19:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97D737B422 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 03:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.96.110]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000923111810.WAVA23965.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:18:10 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8NAAiF00611; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:10:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:10:44 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? Message-ID: <20000923111044.A258@parish> References: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com> <20000922165222.F10538@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <20000922214152.C5065@speedy.gsinet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000922214152.C5065@speedy.gsinet>; from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:41:52PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:41:52PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 16:52 +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:44:14PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > > > > > [ ... Linux' fb driver (VGA text modes) ... ] > > > > > > 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 > > > > Have you tried vidcontrol VESA_800x600 or vidcontrol 132x60 > > under FreeBSD? > > It does turn on the 800x600 video mode. But it still leaves the > ugly 80x25 text mode running in a smallish window, leaving the > less comfortable to read text font, having a lot of unused border > space around the actual text screen. At least that what it does > here (seen on several notebooks, whenever I get my hands on these > I have them running FreeBSD for a while -- until they leave and > are to do some other things:). > Is this not something to do with the fact that LCD screens are digital? All the Gateway laptops we have at work have 1024x768 screens and when during booting (NT), when they are still in text mode, the 80x25 "DOS" screen is a small centred area, just as you describe but if you switch a Command Prompt window to full screen it does indeed fill the screen. I would imagine that to fill the screen under FreeBSD you would need to use one of the VESA_ modes. vidcontrol(1) also has some VESA "text" modes as well; VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, VESA_132x60. -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message