Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:55:28 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: > 80x24 ? Message-ID: <199603261255.NAA16638@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199603261310.FAA03395@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Darren Reed" at Mar 27, 96 00:13:07 am
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In reply to Darren Reed who wrote:
> > Go read a bunch of "booklets" for different video cards, then read a
> > couble of books on PC video hw, and then come back with a better
> > understanding of the problem(s).
> > Then tell me again how easy it will be to make this work on ALL
> > video hw....
> >
> > PS: If you don't have any PC hw books handy, look at the XFree86
> > sources for the video hw they support.
>
> How very sad.
Endeed.
> Is there such a thing as a "most common" method for changing the text
> resolution ? What about for PnP devices ? PCI video vards ?
Well, syscons allows you to switch between all those modes that are
"common" already..
There is hope I guess, but until the vendors get their act together
and actually FOLLOWS the standards, sigh..
> I know PC suck, but this reaches new heights.
I'd say low's :)
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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