Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:05:45 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vidcontrol help Message-ID: <3B1E38B9.12775.1D6E39@localhost> In-Reply-To: <bulk.56828.20010606070559@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:54:04 -0400
> From: Skip <vze2j9fk@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: vidcontrol help
>
> Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a 90x43 display on my consol window.
> > I tried everything I could think of but can not get
> > any displays except 80x25 and 80x30. I tried:
>
> What video card do you have?
>
> I have the same problem and someone here said that my video card (SiS620)
> doesn't implement VESA completely.
>
> Just like with you though, Linux doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
>
> I've been looking for info on framebuffers and there isn't very much.
> But I think Linux might use graphics modes and FreeBSD doesn't. I'm not
> sure though.
There is a graphics mode that you can use, but I haven't tried it.
("man vidcontrol" tells us about "VESA_800x600" and the corresponding
kernel option "SC_PIXEL_MODE" :-)
"man 4 syscons" also tells us the above mode increases the size of
the kernel a lot.
--
Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium
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