From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 12 23:29:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10291 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10058; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:28:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01649; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:21:35 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199802130721.IAA01649@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h In-Reply-To: <199802122205.OAA25264@freefall.freebsd.org> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Feb 12, 98 02:05:11 pm" To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:21:35 +0100 (MET) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who wrote: > phk 1998/02/12 14:05:11 PST > > Modified files: > sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h > Log: > Add support for VESA mode 0x102 (800x600x4) in syscons. You can activate > this using option "-b" to the boot blocks. It is smartest to compile > a font into your kernel (See LINT), but not mandatory, but apart from > the cursor you will see nothing on the screen until you load a font. > > This mode allows XF86_VGA16 to run in 800x600 mode on otherwise unsupported > graphics hardware. I run it in 640x480 on my (old) notebook, that requires changes to the bootblocks though. Maybe we should add some logic so one could set the res on boot (I know, we are out of space). > A number of buglets in the cursor handling in syscons may become > visible this way. Yup, I'm on to them, there is other minor things with this that needs fixing, but it works for the moment, also the mousecursor is bad... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message