From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 13:12:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A2D37B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Sljy-0000ai-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:12:30 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id C553B118C; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:12:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:12:29 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about upcoming FreeBSD 4.5... Message-ID: <20020121211229.GA993@raggedclown.net> References: <20020121200911.MGGH7000.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@there> <20020121124730.R53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020121124730.R53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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