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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


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