From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 21:29:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EF916A421; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:29:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C489B43D1F; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:29:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j58LT60I017045; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:29:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j58LT3ka017042; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:29:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lexi.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:29:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Vladimir Grebenschikov In-Reply-To: <1118260623.966.3.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <20050608172021.W42933@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20050522112612.GA37841@frontfree.net> <1118222710.1505.6.camel@localhost> <20050608145511.D42933@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <1118260623.966.3.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.532, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.07, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CALL FOR TESTERS] VESA High Resolution Console support from DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:29:20 -0000 On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > ? ??, 08/06/2005 ? 14:56 -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet ?????: >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: >>> ? ??, 22/05/2005 ? 19:26 +0800, Xin LI ?????: >>>> >>>> I would like to solicit a test of the following patchset which is based >>>> on DragonFly's changes, against -CURRENT, to bring high resolution console >>>> support to FreeBSD. The current patchset can be considered as "BETA" and >>>> I would commit it if there is no complain about this patchset in the next >>>> week. >>> [ ... cut ... ] >>>> Please let me know if anything strange happens; While I have been running >>>> with the patch for a while, I would still be happy if you will report that >>>> it works :-) >>> >>> Tried fresh 6-CURRENT, all seems ok, but, >>> switching console to pixel-mode 1400x1050 screen takes about 1-2 sec, I >>> guess it is too much. (it happens in both cases >>> >>> Also, I had freezed box when switching from X to console some times. >> >> Let me guess... It's a laptop screen or an LCD panel? > > Yes, exactly, it is sony vzio z1. > > (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: Samsung LTN150P1-L02 > (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 1400x1050 > (II) RADEON(0): BIOS provided dividers will be used. Most laptop LCDs and cheaper desktop panels take a while (The dreaded second or two) to switch resolutions. Try the patch with an external crt monitor plugged in and display mirroring enabled to see the difference for yourself (Or simply try it on a desktop with a radeon card and a crt). Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * Tormenting bytes since 1980. */