Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:12:29 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about upcoming FreeBSD 4.5... Message-ID: <20020121211229.GA993@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020121124730.R53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <20020121200911.MGGH7000.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@there> <20020121124730.R53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:48:51PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Jonathan Belson wrote: > > > I was thinking recently about how nice it would be to have a 'hires' > > console like eg. Solaris. > > Hopefully not as slow. Guh! > > > 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()? > > I use XFree86 everywhere so I don't care :-) you would need to set the > mode and then load a font that's readable in that mode. Syscons already > has VESA support for some modes; you could experiment and see what you can > trick it into loading, or hack vidcontrol and add modes to it. > I have vesa and sc_pixel_mode compiled in and get a very nice display (not quite as nice as the FB ones in Linux, but pretty nice) with: /usr/sbin/vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 It does slow the screen down a little though.. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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