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From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: Questions about upcoming FreeBSD 4.5...
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:13:09 +0000
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Doug White wrote:

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>>I have a few questions about FreeBSD, I have been using Linux and Unix
>>now for quite some time but am considering switching my home system to
>>FreeBSD.  One question I have is this, in linux even though there is a
>>text console by default (using vga) you can use a frame buffer console
>>for just about any video card out right now so that I am able to use my
>>brand new ATI Radeon 7500 to have a console which is at 1280x1024 at
>>8bit depth with a refresh of 85 Hz, is this possible in FreeBSD or are
>>only certain cards able to be used in frame buffer mode for virtual
>>consoles?
>>
> Depends on what you mean.  FreeBSD doesn't have a kernel-based framebuffer
> a la Linux's fb code.  On the plus side, the latest XFree86 should support

I was thinking recently about how nice it would be to have a 'hires'
console like eg. Solaris.  I currently run VGA_90x60 but it's a bit ugly
IMHO.  Would you actually need framebuffer support or could you just
set a VESA mode via set_video_mode()?


--Jon

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