From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 27 01:17:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA09440 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:17:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09435 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:17:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA00679; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:16:23 -0800 Message-Id: <199603270916.BAA00679@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Barry Perryman cc: hackers Subject: Re: > 80x24 ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:53:05 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:16:21 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Barry Perryman said: > > 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. > The last time I took a look at the linux svga thingy it was primitive at best . The best thing to do is to convert the bottom part of XFree86 to a library with a little patience it can be done. Worst possible scenario is to use the whole X server as a library which is not a bad idea. Amancio