From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 15:25:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB0016A41C; Mon, 23 May 2005 15:25:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACCE43D55; Mon, 23 May 2005 15:25:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4NFP8Ir040737; Mon, 23 May 2005 10:25:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4291F5C9.8020208@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:24:57 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050504 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xin LI References: <20050522112612.GA37841@frontfree.net> In-Reply-To: <20050522112612.GA37841@frontfree.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/890/Mon May 23 06:34:44 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CALL FOR TESTERS] VESA High Resolution Console support from DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 15:25:14 -0000 Xin LI wrote: > Dear -CURRENT users, > > I would like to solicit a test of the following patchset which is based > on DragonFly's changes, against -CURRENT, to bring high resolution console > support to FreeBSD. The current patchset can be considered as "BETA" and > I would commit it if there is no complain about this patchset in the next > week. > > The patchset can be found at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa/patchset-highres.20050522 > > To use it, you will need latest -CURRENT code, and apply the patchset at > toplevel source tree, i.e. /usr/src for usual cases. Then you need to build > and reinstall your kernel, with 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE' compiled in, and > optionally options VESA if you don't want to manually load VESA support > module. A make buildworld/installworld is recommended, but I believe that > just rebuild/reinstall usr.sbin/vidcontrol is enough to get your hands on > the support for using something like 'vidcontrol MODE_239' or so, which will > switch the current console to that mode. Some mode may not work on certain > cards, though. > > Please let me know if anything strange happens; While I have been running > with the patch for a while, I would still be happy if you will report that > it works :-) This seems to work nicely for me (Dell Latitude D610, Radeon X300, 1400x1050x16,24,or 32). Only thing I saw was my machine locked up once after leaving X, but I could not reproduce it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------