From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 7:58: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A129150E5 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 07:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA43189; Fri, 14 May 1999 16:57:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Kelly Yancey Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modex support (again) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 May 1999 16:57:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: Kelly Yancey's message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 10:53:02 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kelly Yancey writes: > On 14 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > No, actually it has 1536 more pixels :) Mode Q is so named because the > > frame buffer is a cube of sorts (i.e. 256x256 pixels in 256 colors) > Yeah, I've seen the DOS port of snes9x use that. I don't think it has > truely square pixels though since the screen has a 4:3 aspect ratio and > the resolution is 1:1...the pixels should look slightly wider than they > are tall. Most monitors display Mode Q with wide black margins. > But it is linear :) The question is...is it worth including? I just did > a quick search on the net and found the register programming information > for this one (256x256x256) and another interesting linear mode > (296x220x256) which has almost square pixels and a slightly higher > resolution. Umm, no, 296x220 is smaller than 256x256. > And if the verdict is that the extra video modes (so long as they are > planar) are useful, then how about some tweaked text modes? We have > support for a number of different rows, but I have some old patches (which > need updating) for extending the number of text mode columns from 80 to > 90. Yah. If you can make it work, I'm all for it. > > - port GGI to FreeBSD. > I thought this had been discussed and shot down? If it has, I didn't see it :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message