From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 04:29:37 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 E2B2D16A4CF for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 04:29:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.vsnl.net (smtp2.vsnl.net [203.200.235.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A3043D1D for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 04:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from torahuls@vsnl.com) Received: from vsnl.com ([127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.vsnl.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTH003CGK1BM7@smtp2.vsnl.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:59:36 +0530 (IST) Received: from ([219.65.87.19]) by smtp2.vsnl.net (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall Unix); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:59:36 +0530 (IST) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:01:44 +0000 From: Rahul Sawarkar In-reply-to: <20040222113931.GA63311@lewiz.org> To: Lewis Thompson Message-id: <4038EE88.4030407@vsnl.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040107 Thunderbird/0.4 References: <40378876.2090808@vsnl.com> <44isi0857m.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040222113931.GA63311@lewiz.org> cc: Lowell Gilbert 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 12:29:38 -0000 Maybe you are using the wrong fonts.Did you try both the 8x8 and 16x16 fonts? Rgrds > Is it just me or does vidcontrol look ugly when compared to Linux's > console framebuffer that allows high-resolution console displays? > > -lewiz. > Lewis Thompson wrote: > 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. >> >>Why would you want a framebuffer for that? >>Do you have frame grabber hardware or something? >> >>If all you want is a 1024x768 video mode driving the >>text console, vidcontrol(1) can do that, but I don't >>understand the connection to a frame buffer... > >