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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:52:22 +0300
From:      Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>
To:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Framebuffer driver?
Message-ID:  <20000922165222.F10538@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>
In-Reply-To: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com>; from gram@cequrux.com on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:44:14PM %2B0200
References:  <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com>

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:44:14PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> In my neverending quest to get my lousy Compaq laptop's Synaptics touch
> pad to work (a problem with which many of you are now familiar!), I
> finally got around to installing Linux (Mandrake 7.1) a week ago. The
> jury is still out on whether this is going to solve my problems - I have
> found a kernel patch that seems to help, but I'm playing with too many
> variables right now and need some time to be more systematic - but in
> the process, I've found one feature of Linux that I really like, which
> may be enough for me to keep using it on the laptop over FreeBSD. That
> feature is the VESA framebuffer driver for the console, which allows me
> to run my 800x600 LCD screen as a 100x35 console, with a very readable
> font (better than any of the ones I've used on FreeBSD at 80x25). I

Have you tried vidcontrol VESA_800x600 or vidcontrol 132x60 under FreeBSD?

-past


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