Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 22:17:59 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: ketracel <ketracel@internode.on.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: development of framebuffer driver hi res console Message-ID: <20080523201759.GD80973@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <11167f520805222321o3236391dl2742fa81118029f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <CBB7AFEE-3E22-4059-8E5E-341BA0B40338@internode.on.net> <11167f520805222321o3236391dl2742fa81118029f4@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:21:50AM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > and in mt /etc/rc.conf I have > > allscreens_flags="MODE_280" > > note you should man vidcontrol before doing this. > > just type vidcontrol -i at your system console for the correct mode. I've always been puzzled by vidcontrol(8). I've only been able to use 80x50. Using "vidcontrol -i mode", I get 98 modes. If I try MODE_292 (1280x1024x32), I get the following message: % vidcontrol: cannot active raster display: Inapropriate ioctl for device And this is the case for most of them. > it isn't like gentoo or fedora, but it works for me. > I would REALLLY like to see better frame buffer support in FreeBSD My experience with Linux framebuffer is quite bad. I always disable it since backward scrolling (using less) is really, really slow. If there happen to be a similar feature on FreeBSD, I hope we won't have this problem :). Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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