Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:48:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> Cc: Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@attbi.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Questions about upcoming FreeBSD 4.5... Message-ID: <20020121124730.R53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020121200911.MGGH7000.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@there>
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Jonathan Belson wrote: > I was thinking recently about how nice it would be to have a 'hires' > console like eg. Solaris. Hopefully not as slow. Guh! > I currently run VGA_90x60 but it's a bit ugly IMHO. Would you actually > need framebuffer support or could you just set a VESA mode via > set_video_mode()? I use XFree86 everywhere so I don't care :-) you would need to set the mode and then load a font that's readable in that mode. Syscons already has VESA support for some modes; you could experiment and see what you can trick it into loading, or hack vidcontrol and add modes to it. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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