From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 06:21:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D009106566C for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 06:21:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7648F8FC20 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 06:21:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so607487rvf.43 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 23:21:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=1qN5LUrgYPJWsU621eGr+QspLaTpYn3eiRdqlhSAu94=; b=MF3f8qLeoAS3PsjGw9I2kkifaVnGWzwd9P4kOIxWgkygrTUXKZ8VvROVzt7LGDTuVsk7oIeAaW6NnbWy/QwHWq6kemsjGs6DGW61S2P9sySCBkRYcXfRWw7T3BgmtDoCnzu71AVFvyfs9mA7nBnJDCgXpaePGhhAccETBQ4JmoI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=bB4jv46loAm0yi11wCfkctnL5nrOtI13k78XegH+qntE9AxZ8WMyMpv6UN78qb5Wm2wGj54o2aNoHZz4S36XRqo9t2KTHfvsTFyTw/XKSuLrVN9cQQVzOL0TaR/jVkrpydtcPmVFdhVKtjC53dZLkNop3a+ATJoa6gAt7XLeJQU= Received: by 10.141.115.6 with SMTP id s6mr496444rvm.4.1211523710214; Thu, 22 May 2008 23:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.186.2 with HTTP; Thu, 22 May 2008 23:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <11167f520805222321o3236391dl2742fa81118029f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 01:21:50 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: ketracel In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: development of framebuffer driver hi res console X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 06:21:50 -0000 Amd64 platform currently has no options to change the primitive 80x25 mode text console as VESA is not supported. for what it is worth, I run my system console like this: in my kernel conf file I put options VESA # Enable VESA Mode options SC_PIXEL_MODE # options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=1000 # options SC_NORM_ATTR=(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK) # options SC_NORM_REV_ATTR=(FG_YELLOW|BG_BLACK) # options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_LIGHTRED|BG_BLACK) # options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=(FG_LIGHTBLUE|BG_BLACK) # and in mt /etc/rc.conf I have allscreens_flags="MODE_280" note you should man vidcontrol before doing this. just type vidcontrol -i at your system console for the correct mode. it isn't like gentoo or fedora, but it works for me. I would REALLLY like to see better frame buffer support in FreeBSD Sam Fourman Jr.