Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:46:26 +0200 From: Didier Wiroth <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: applying the vesa patch to stable for high console resolution Message-ID: <19891a045407.42ae0cc2@etat.lu>
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Hi, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!! this for the freebsd5 branch only!!!! Here is how to apply the patch to get the "long awaited" high console text modes under freebsd! I actually use it on my nc6000 hp laptop with the following mode: 1400x1050x16 damm .. really nice ;-)) This patch is actually for freebsd current but it works (for me) with 5-stable and may be "release" or earlier versions (5.X) too. ONCE AGAIN BE WARNED!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! Let's go: 1) Get the patch here: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa/patchset-highres.20050522 2) Remove the lines which are not required for us and rename the patch we will use to syscons.patch: split -p "Index: usr.sbin" patchset-highres.20050522 && mv xaa syscons.patch 3) backup and patch your local (stable) sources: (/usr/src/sys/dev/syscons - will be patched) cp -Rp /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons /usr/src/sys/dev/BAK.syscons cd /usr/src patch < path_to_patch/syscons.patch 4) recompile and install your kernel with sc_pixel_mode and vesa support see handbook for details! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html 5) backup your vidcontrol sources cp -Rp /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol /usr/src/usr.sbin/BAK.vidcontrol 6) update your vidcontrol sources with the "current/HEAD" vidcontrol sources cd /usr/src cvs -danoncvs@anoncvs.de.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs co -rHEAD usr.sbin/vidcontrol 7) recompile vidcontrol and install cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol && make clean && make all && make install 8) reboot 9) after having rebooted with your new kernel (with sc_pixel_mode and vesa) issue a "vidcontrol -i mode" You will get lots of ouput like this: 322 (0x142) 0x0000000f G 1400x1050x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x98000000 65472k Test the mode in a shell by issuying: vidcontrol MODE_322 If it works (I hope for you ;-)) but your corresponding mode in rc.conf like this: allscreens_flags="MODE_322" Voilą :-)) Long live freebsd
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