From owner-freebsd-small Wed Dec 16 06:06:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17730 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 06:06:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postoffice.aeonflux.net (postoffice.aeonflux.net [208.139.254.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17725 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 06:06:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hg@ParView.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by postoffice.aeonflux.net (8.8.8/8.8.7/PCS9711a) with UUCP id JAA11718; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:05:46 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hg@localhost) by ParView.com (8.9.1/8.8.8/n2wx) id JAA03323; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:03:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hg) From: Howard Goldstein MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <13943.48558.907399.183707@slice.parview.com> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:03:26 -0500 (EST) To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svga and pico In-Reply-To: References: <13942.41325.353477.236495@slice.parview.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.56 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki writes: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Howard Goldstein wrote: > > > Well, I've sold freebsd as the platform so now I have to make it work :-) > > > > Anyone have thoughts on doing 640x480x256 without running X? > > Sure. There are two steps for it: > > * Compile in (or kldload) the VESA module. You need VM86 as well to make > it work. I'm going to try this just to get me going > > * Bug Soren Schmidt to provide patches for libvgl to handle VESA modes > (ca. 2 months ago he said they are almost ready... ;-) Bad news on this: Soren wrote the patches worked but disappeared when his machine was stolen a few months ago :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message