From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 10:20:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF72F37B43E for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tp770z ([24.17.10.234]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000819172041.GKJB1060.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@tp770z> for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:20:41 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Bill McMilleon" To: Subject: 132 column VESA modes on a Cyber9397? Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 12:20:37 -0500 Message-ID: <000101c00a01$ccc5bd10$6401a8c0@tp770z> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a fortunate owner of an IBM ThinkPad 770z which uses a Cyber9397 video controller. This unit is capable of 1024x768 operation at 16-bit color, but I can't seem to get at any of the 132 column modes that are available on my desktop machines (using both a Matrox Mystique and a very cheap S3 Trio32 card). I'm a big CLI fan who doesn't need/want to run X if at all possible, but I really need some 132 column modes to make things comfortable. Has anyone been able to coax a Cyber 9397 into doing this? If not, does anyone have an idea what is involved to implement this in software? I am a semi-talented C programmer who would be willing to pursue this, but I have little experience with Unix development and almost no knowledge of VESA and framebuffer issues. Thanks. FYI: "vidcontrol -i mode" does NOT list any 132 column modes for this video device. --Bill McMilleon billmc@internetaddress.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message