Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:33:56 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sean Winn <sean@gothic.net.au> Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? Message-ID: <XFMail.000923013356.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <39CB6FF5.FDE57266@cequrux.com>
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On 22-Sep-00 Graham Wheeler wrote: > Sean Winn wrote: >> >> If you include 'options VESA' or load the vesa.ko, and load an appropriate >> 8x8 font, you can use VESA video modes. >> >> vidcontrol supports VESA_800x600 with an option 'SC_PIXEL_MODE' >> >> 'man vidcontrol' has more details about this.... (I've never actually tried >> it myself, only noticed it when I was looking for 80x50 information :) > > Looking at the modes, though, it looks like there are only 80 column and > 132 column ones. I can't see that a 800x600 LCD will support 132 column > text. As I mentioned, under Linux I'm getting 100 columns. I like this > extra width more than I like the extra height (I tend to have mc running > most of the time, and its great with the extra width). There are 90 column modes as well, though you might have to enable them with a kernel option (they are a tweak). Read the vidcontrol manpage though, and note that for higher res modes you need to load font files for the 8x8 and 8x14 fonts. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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