From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 11:01:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3861B16A4CF for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5FE43D5A for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:01:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i0NJ12iS027684; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:01:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:01:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Geert Hendrickx Message-ID: <20040123190102.GA8376@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: framebuffers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:01:26 -0000 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