Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:20:04 +0800 From: "Deng XueFeng" <dsnofe@msn.com> To: "Sascha Wildner" <saw@online.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [BETA PATCH] VESA mode support for syscons Message-ID: <BAY11-DAV3OkevWWGxe00021773@hotmail.com> References: <BAY11-DAV12aW15YhcV0001d815@hotmail.com> <4132EDFD.4050804@erpicon.de> <20040830221036.85DE.DSNOFE@msn.com> <413350D9.4070909@online.de> <BAY11-DAV31ygscdApY00021d54@hotmail.com> <4134A1BF.1080304@online.de>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sascha Wildner" <saw@online.de> To: "Deng XueFeng" <dsnofe@msn.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:05 AM Subject: Re: [BETA PATCH] VESA mode support for syscons > Deng XueFeng wrote: > >>>Thanks. It seems to me that the modes you were writing about are not >>>true VESA modes (at least the card doesn't return info on them). I guess >> >> what's info? >> could you give a example or you dmesg file? > > Deng, > > during kernel initialization the VESA module probes all possible mode > numbers and looks if the adapter returns a valid mode. In your dmesg you > can see that no WXGA modes are recognized and they are also not > rejected. So I think this is because these modes are only accessible to > hardware specific drivers. Thanks to explain this. I wanna try linux to see what mode it support. > > Oh, I saw that there are threads on freebsd-current. The issues people > are having there with their moused complaining are due to some changes > in vidcontrol that DragonFly has done. Since the mouse pointer is common > to all terminals it can be turned on (and off) only once. After that, it > has to be turned off again. moused RCNG tries to turn it on multiple > times. This is a bug. Compare our version of moused RCNG at > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/moused?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > to yours to see where the problem lies. I have send the patch to Cyrille Lefevre <clefevr-current@9online.fr> who sendpr. but forget Cc to maillist. > > I'm gonna put up a new version of the patch later this evening to be > committed within the next few days. It has been cleaned up and extended > so that 15 and 24 bit modes are also supported. I think it's also a bit > faster. I'd recommend that FreeBSD (if they want our stuff) take this > patch instead of the first one. Cool. I will merge the patch and sendpr. > > If people on freebsd-current have any questions or comments to this > stuff, they are welcome to just ask me by mail. I don't subscribe to > freebsd-current currently. > I will Cc this mail to freebsd-current. thanks a lot. > Regards, > Sascha > > -- > http://yoyodyne.ath.cx > Sincerely, Deng XueFeng MSN: dsnofe@msn.com http://www.dengh.comhelp
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