Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:27:05 +0100 (CET) From: Cordula's Web <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: dnelson@allantgroup.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: framebuffers? Message-ID: <20040123192705.5B8D540876@fw.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20040123190102.GA8376@dan.emsphone.com> (message from Dan Nelson on Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:01:02 -0600) References: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> <20040123190102.GA8376@dan.emsphone.com>
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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. You may need to tweak your kernel config file, or kldload vesa for this to work. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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