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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:22:00PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Then, there is no way to get a high resolution console on amd64 ?
> 
> No promises but when my Pentium D arrives I'll work on porting KGI4BSD to the
> AMD64. 
>     http://people.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD/
> 
> It's completely untested and not ready for production but that said I
> don't see why it shouldn't work.  

SuSE Linux has nice high-res console when running on amd64 machines.
Figuring out the techniques they use may be helpful.

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