From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 17 17: 5:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF07C14FC3 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 17:05:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:yBWxXnU5xcTlBi17EkWuCtKzo7igQxhr@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id JAA16161; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:03:13 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id JAA09244; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:07:04 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199905180007.JAA09244@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Soren Schmidt 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) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 May 1999 22:03:07 +0200." <199905172003.WAA25955@freebsd.dk> References: <199905172003.WAA25955@freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:07:03 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message