From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 27 01:00:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA08436 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sun001.sil.com (sun001.sil.com [193.195.22.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA08415 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by sun001.sil.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08784; Wed, 27 Mar 96 08:58:51 GMT Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:53:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Barry Perryman Subject: Re: > 80x24 ? To: Philippe Regnauld Cc: hackers , Darren Reed In-Reply-To: <199603262232.XAA00589@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > Darren Reed =E9crit / writes: >=20 > > Linux has some table of the things, and before it did this, it would > > somehow "probe" the card and give a (not complete) list of available > > modes. >=20 > Doesn't Linux use some sort of ModeLine (just like XFree), and u= se > it to drive the console at any frequency and/or resolution ? That's the SVGA console, from what I remember the normal linux console doens't require any special setup files. > -- Phil Barry --- Barry Perryman - perryman@sun001.sil.com Satellites International Limited, England Participant 27,693,292 in the BSE -> CJD Experiment