Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:16 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raster display problem (FreeBSD vs Linux) Message-ID: <20040129213215.GA30409@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <bvbtiq$kbj$2@sea.gmane.org> References: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F5D99CA@exchange.wanglobal.net> <6.0.1.1.2.20040127082047.04034ec0@194.184.65.7> <20040128224544.GK2869@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <bvbtiq$kbj$2@sea.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:22:34PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:25:58AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > >> The fact seems not related to a particular Linux distro, but seems more > >> generalized, infact I tested a few ones and all succeded in using such > >> mode. Let's see if our console driver support it in the future... It is > >> not very useful on productive server, but it is very cute on a laptop > >> workstation. > > > > KGI is coming soon -- see the current FreeBSD Status Report. > > Is that the only new functionality that KGI will bring? A graphical console? > I used Debian a few times with the framebuffer enabled and it was a mess on > my laptop. I couldn't even see the bottom 10 lines of the console. :) I like > my text console just fine. :) > > Or does KGI also promise video driver interoperability between Linux > and FreeBSD? That would be pretty neat, but doesn't X11 already > provide this? I'm just not seeing the benefit to KGI. I believe it or something like it is necessicary in order to support consoles other then serial on IA64 and possiably sparc64. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGXvfXY6L6fI4GtQRAq3RAJ9/j+Dkw2h4zErsWXoZJoeIa9raawCgwyvh N5Rs1biNjQg8AdYEc+8Byn4= =V6sn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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