From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 14:54:24 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 66D9416A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6FC343D7F for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i0NMrUV8052358; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:53:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:53:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Geert Hendrickx Message-ID: <20040123225329.GC8376@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> <20040123190102.GA8376@dan.emsphone.com> <200401232316.49898.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401232316.49898.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 22:54:24 -0000 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