From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 14:37:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BECD16A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:37:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de (crivens.unixoid.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF4643D45 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:37:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5515441A4; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:37:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (crivens.unixoid.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78584-06; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:36:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 708804164; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:36:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 212.12.51.89 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mh); by mail.reisegruppe-mollengrab.de with HTTP; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:36:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4096.212.12.51.89.1112798211.squirrel@212.12.51.89> In-Reply-To: References: <99f113a61084.4252ff36@etat.lu> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:36:51 +0200 (CEST) From: "Marian Hettwer" To: "Robert Backhaus" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixoid.de cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Didier Wiroth Subject: Re: vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:37:13 -0000 On Mi, 6.04.2005, 14:59, Robert Backhaus sagte: > On Apr 6, 2005 5:12 AM, Didier Wiroth wrote: >> >> I was wondering if the patches (see link below) have any chances to >> make their ways into a future release version or may be in the ports >> collection? > > I agree that it would make life more enjoyable for some people, but > the console is increasingly a fail-safe debugging/configuring > interface, as more people use X for any work. ACK. On one hand it would be pretty useful to have a high resolution console, on the other hand, I wouldn't like to see the FreeBSD Kernel crashing while booting, because of some faulty graphics card. I recently had the problem on Gentoo Linux (2.6.8), that it just didn't recognized my graphics card and therefor the kernel crashed due to some framebuffer problems. That's annoying! If FreeBSD would implement a high resolution console (by use of either FrameBuffer or VESA), than it never ever should be the default for your installation. And even if you enabled it, the kernel should never crash. Instead it should give an error message, telling me "Hej buddy, your graphics card won't work with VESA" and then scaling down to old fashioned low res console ... > Yes, I would use it myself in places, especially laptops, but I would > not like it there if it possibly made the console less stable. > It would want to be very well tested. I'd slate it for 6.Stable, when > it occours. Doesn't matter to me wether I'll have this feature in 6-stable or MFC'ed to RELENG_5. It has to be stable. best regards, Marian