From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 18 14:53:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07193 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:53:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07186 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:53:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id JAA07175; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:19:12 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702182249.JAA07175@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns In-Reply-To: <199702182236.PAA11843@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 18, 97 03:36:45 pm" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:19:11 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hm@kts.org, ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > > This is, of course, not really a useful solution. Please people, > > don't assume that the last decade has been devoid of programmers that > > understand the PC's video subsystem - none of the ideas that have been > > raised recently are original, and the fact that they haven't been > > implemented should tell you something very important. > > That the FreeBSD hackers have problems implementing something the > Linux guys already have? 8-) 8-) 8-). Huh? They call the BIOS out of their bootstrap loader to set the video mode. Yay; I prefer the space used in ours to do the serial console stuff properly. The SVGATextmode stuff had been done for FreeBSD, and if I thought it was worth the effort, I'd try to help Soren get it working. As it is, a $60 PCI video card gives more than enough X grunt for snazzy text modes to be a complete waste of time. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[