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Date:      Tue, 18 May 1999 09:07:03 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        kbyanc@alcnet.com (Kelly Yancey), des@flood.ping.uio.no, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: modex support (again) 
Message-ID:  <199905180007.JAA09244@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 May 1999 22:03:07 %2B0200." <199905172003.WAA25955@freebsd.dk> 
References:  <199905172003.WAA25955@freebsd.dk> 

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>>   On a slightly related note, I am currently in the process of developing
>> patches to add more useful "tweaked" modes to the video driver:
>>   graphics 720x480, 16 colors   (90x30 8x16 character cells)
>>   graphics 256x256, 256 colors  (32x32 8x8 character cells)
>>   graphics 296x220, 256 colors  (37x27 8x8 character cells)
>>   text 90x25, 90x30, 90x43, 90x50, 90x60
>> 
>>   The patches will also update vidcontrol to allow selecting any of the
>> modes.
>
>Excuse me, but those modes are even more wierd than modex, either we stick
>to the std modes, or we'll bloat the driver beyond repair, what I'm 
>stricktly against. All those wacky modes should be set from a module
>or some such, they have NOTHING to do in the kernel pr default.

I found 90-column text modes are generally OK, when I looked at his
submitted patch.  It adds just few lines to the video driver.  It is
too small to make a KLD, so I included it to my recent patch as a
kernel compile time option.

I haven't seen the patch for "tweaked" graphics modes above.

Kazu



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