Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:53:30 -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: <20040123225329.GC8376@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200401232316.49898.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> References: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> <20040123190102.GA8376@dan.emsphone.com> <200401232316.49898.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
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In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said: > > 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. > > I suppose my video card supports it, since it always worked under > Linux (Gentoo). However, `vidcontrol -i mode|grep T` only returns > some 80x25 through 80x60 fonts, no VESA. :-( Linux actually goes into a graphics mode and blits the characters onto the screen, which is slow but works with any card that has a graphics mode. FreeBSD stays in text mode, which gets you a much faster console but requires video card support. "Cordula's Web" mentioned that you need kernel support for this; make sure you have "options VESA" in your kernel config file, or have loaded the vesa kernel module. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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