Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 13:24:50 -0700 From: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC 800x600 support in XF86_VGA16 now in -current Message-ID: <1611.893449490@cloud.rain.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:08:30 %2B0100. <6977.887321310@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <6977.887321310@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: Add support for VESA mode 0x102 (800x600x4) in syscons. You can activate this using option "-b" to the boot blocks. It is smartest to compile a font into your kernel (See LINT), but not mandatory, but apart from the cursor you will see nothing on the screen until you load a font. I have been using this code for a week or two now, and am *very* happy to be able to use the whole screen under X (even if Navigator looks terrible in 4-bit color). However, I am getting that the impression that this feature is walking on top of the file system (or vice versa). Ever since I installed the new boot code, I have been having to run fsck by hand on the root partition every other reboot (or so). It only seems to happen when I use -b, and creating boot.config and/or boot.help seems to have reduced the problem (or at least obscured it). Any ideas? I do not think this can simply be the result of switching to -current, as I was playing around at least some with that before installing the new boot blocks. And, like I said, it seems to only occur when I use -b. Oh...and is there any way I can avoid having to type -b all the time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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