Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:04:32 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Higher resolution text modes on alpha? Message-ID: <b15v50$2u9e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20030127115014.GA3570@mojo.tepkom.ru>
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Wartan Hachaturow <wart@tepkom.ru> wrote: > Seems like syscons's "text/video modes" along with graphic screesavers > do work only with vesa module, wich is highly x86-oriented. Yes, because there is no standard for programming graphics cards beyond the ancient VGA capabilities. With VESA, you can access the card-specific BIOS for this work. Otherwise you would need an XFree86-like driver collection. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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