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Rahul Sawarkar <torahuls@vsnl.com> writes:

> is there a framebuffer port for freebsd?
>   i want to run my console in 1024x768.

Why would you want a framebuffer for that?
Do you have frame grabber hardware or something?

If all you want is a 1024x768 video mode driving the 
text console, vidcontrol(1) can do that, but I don't
understand the connection to a frame buffer...