From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 28 5:30:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9B137B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [193.197.184.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765F343E4A for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with gbsmtp id 18dVoy-0007ed-01; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:30:36 +0100 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0SD4WSA096960 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:04:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0SD4W2e096959 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:04:32 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Higher resolution text modes on alpha? Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20030127115014.GA3570@mojo.tepkom.ru> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wartan Hachaturow 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