From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 8 15:39:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5A41065698 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:39:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605558FC08 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:39:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n18Fd5Ql023910; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:39:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n18Fd5T6023909; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:39:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <200902081539.n18Fd5T6023909@lurza.secnetix.de> To: christoph.mallon@gmx.de (Christoph Mallon) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:39:05 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <498EE950.300@gmx.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:39:07 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:39:09 -0000 Christoph Mallon wrote: > Oliver Fromme schrieb: > > Antonios Anastasiadis wrote: > > > I've got the red border on a TFT monitor by the way. > > > > OK, yeah, the problem is more widespread than I thought. > > Obviously some TFT monitors (probably wide-screen ones in > > particular) aren't scaling VGA modes to the full size of > > the screen, so the border bug becomes visible. > > This "bug" is called "overscan" No, the bug I'm talking about is in my code, which happens to always leave the overscan color at index 0, no matter what the actual palette entry is. This bug has been fixed. > and is actually a feature of graphics > cards. You definitely don't have to lecture me about graphics cards. ;-) I know the overscan property very well; I already mentioned it earlier in this thread. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Clear perl code is better than unclear awk code; but NOTHING comes close to unclear perl code" (taken from comp.lang.awk FAQ)