Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:13:06 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 132 Column mode on VGA Consoles Message-ID: <19971215011306.46218@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <199712150834.JAA03985@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 09:34:39AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971214232717.477B-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk> <199712150834.JAA03985@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> stands accused of saying: > With the advent of affordable graphics equipment, most people don't > seem to be that much interested in working hard on the text console > enhancement (although i know Søren's got some plans in mind), at least > not enough to spend hundreds of hours there. I plan on implementing a layered console system that will allow the syscons driver (or it's kin) to use VESA VBE text modes to display it's output. This will mean that the 132x25, 132x30, 132x50, 132x60 and other modes like it will be feasable. As soon as the vesa code goes in, there will be _three_ possible sources of contention over the system console's device(s), the Xfree86 system, the VESA library, and syscons itself. In order to rectify these contentions, I plan on implementing a simple dual or possibly tri-layered console system that will remove these contentions. -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."
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