Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:21:35 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h Message-ID: <199802130721.IAA01649@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199802122205.OAA25264@freefall.freebsd.org> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Feb 12, 98 02:05:11 pm"
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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who wrote:
> phk 1998/02/12 14:05:11 PST
>
> Modified files:
> sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h
> Log:
> Add support for VESA mode 0x102 (800x600x4) in syscons. You can activate
> this using option "-b" to the boot blocks. It is smartest to compile
> a font into your kernel (See LINT), but not mandatory, but apart from
> the cursor you will see nothing on the screen until you load a font.
>
> This mode allows XF86_VGA16 to run in 800x600 mode on otherwise unsupported
> graphics hardware.
I run it in 640x480 on my (old) notebook, that requires changes to the
bootblocks though. Maybe we should add some logic so one could set
the res on boot (I know, we are out of space).
> A number of buglets in the cursor handling in syscons may become
> visible this way.
Yup, I'm on to them, there is other minor things with this that needs
fixing, but it works for the moment, also the mousecursor is bad...
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Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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