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Subject: RE: raster display problem (FreeBSD vs Linux)
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At 26/01/2004, Sten Daniel S=F8rsdal wrote:
> > I have a fujitsu-siemens lifebook s6120, running FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE.
> > I'd like to set the console display to the VESA_800x600.
> >
>Your card does not appear to support 800x600x4 which is required for=20
>VESA_800x600.
>VESA_800x600 is a text mode hack and Linux probably has a much better=20
>video console
>driver.
>
>_// Sten Daniel S=F8rsdal

Thanks for your answer.

The fact seems not related to a particular Linux distro, but seems more=20
generalized, infact I tested a few ones and all succeded in using such mode.
Let's see if our console driver support it in the future... It is not very=
=20
useful on productive server, but it is very cute on a laptop workstation.

Thanks again for your answer...



Best Regards,
Gianmarco Giovannelli ,  "Unix expert since yesterday"
http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco