From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 22:21:33 2005 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 2511C16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:21:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAB143D48 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:21:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayobrien@att.net) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (dsl093-180-184.sac1.dsl.speakeasy.net[66.93.180.184]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005041022213811200m99iee>; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:21:39 +0000 Message-ID: <4259A6E9.2090104@att.net> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:21:29 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - questions References: <0IEH00KMJ6U14XA0@store.etat.lu> <1112729834.68302.2.camel@genius2.i.cz> <4258D61C.90301@att.net> <1113127599.8293.116.camel@genius2.i.cz> <42594C93.5070203@att.net> <1113149943.630.37.camel@genius2.i.cz> In-Reply-To: <1113149943.630.37.camel@genius2.i.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Michal Mertl Subject: Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT 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: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:21:33 -0000 Michal Mertl wrote: > There's no standard VGA 132 character text mode. It's either provided by > VESA or emulated using some graphics mode. Newer graphics hardware > stopped supporting extended text modes. If you want such modes you need > to emulate them (render the characters using lots of small dots instead > of just writing characters to the adapter which renders them for you). > Support for this functionality is included in syscons/vga driver when > you define options SC_PIXEL_MODE. Standard FreeBSD supports only planar > graphics mode 800x600 dots with 4 bits (16) of color information per > pixel which can be run on old plain VGA with 256KB of memory. > > The patches we are talking about add support for rendering the > characters in any graphics mode your card supports (through VESA) with > >= 15 bits per pixel. You could then run say 1600x1200x32 bpp (16milions > of colours) for a text mode console. You can't use any graphics there > but the textual resolution will be bigger. There also isn't support for > using simultaneously more than 16 (or is it 15?) different colors for > characters even when milions are technically possible. > Thanks for the explanation, it is appreciated. I tried the process and encountered errors. Here's what happened: patch