From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 03:36:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECA216A4CF for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:36:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from cloudburst.umist.ac.uk (cloudburst.umist.ac.uk [130.88.119.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63EBA43D1D for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:36:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@red.lewiz.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=yellow.lewiz.org) by cloudburst.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AuruZ-0007k9-5U; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:36:39 +0000 Received: from red.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.4]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AurxM-000GTo-UB; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:39:32 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 63350 invoked by uid 4001); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:39:32 -0000 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:39:31 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: Lowell Gilbert Message-ID: <20040222113931.GA63311@lewiz.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lewis Thompson , Lowell Gilbert , Rahul Sawarkar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40378876.2090808@vsnl.com> <44isi0857m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44isi0857m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: Rahul Sawarkar cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: framebuffer fro freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:36:41 -0000 --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Rahul Sawarkar writes: > > is there a framebuffer port for freebsd? > > i want to run my console in 1024x768. >=20 > Why would you want a framebuffer for that? > Do you have frame grabber hardware or something? >=20 > If all you want is a 1024x768 video mode driving the=20 > text console, vidcontrol(1) can do that, but I don't > understand the connection to a frame buffer... Is it just me or does vidcontrol look ugly when compared to Linux's console framebuffer that allows high-resolution console displays? -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAOJTzItq0KFQv7T8RAlNoAJ9Xm1wX4ByGw72Si9aGX0yFFBiLygCgnnrl F8PPX42Zd+iJNqO+crlgK0k= =q7oa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N--