Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:01:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: framebuffers? Message-ID: <20040123190102.GA8376@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> References: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
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In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said: > Hello, > > I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in > FreeBSD too. > > I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with "options VESA" > enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf: > font8x8="/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt" > allscreen_flags="132x43" > and rebooted, but it still doesn't work. Try VESA_132x43. I'm not sure why all the modes aren't just WxH. Your card also needs to be able to support that vesa mode; you can run "vidcontrol -i mode | grep T" to list the text modes your card can do. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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