From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 23 1:36: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A203937B423 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8N8ZZi83185; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8N8Xvp10110; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:33:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39CB6FF5.FDE57266@cequrux.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Graham Wheeler Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sean Winn Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Sep-00 Graham Wheeler wrote: > Sean Winn wrote: >> >> If you include 'options VESA' or load the vesa.ko, and load an appropriate >> 8x8 font, you can use VESA video modes. >> >> vidcontrol supports VESA_800x600 with an option 'SC_PIXEL_MODE' >> >> 'man vidcontrol' has more details about this.... (I've never actually tried >> it myself, only noticed it when I was looking for 80x50 information :) > > Looking at the modes, though, it looks like there are only 80 column and > 132 column ones. I can't see that a 800x600 LCD will support 132 column > text. As I mentioned, under Linux I'm getting 100 columns. I like this > extra width more than I like the extra height (I tend to have mc running > most of the time, and its great with the extra width). There are 90 column modes as well, though you might have to enable them with a kernel option (they are a tweak). Read the vidcontrol manpage though, and note that for higher res modes you need to load font files for the 8x8 and 8x14 fonts. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message