Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:30:15 GMT From: h h <aakuusta@gmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/160692: FreeBSD must consider shipping with SC_PIXEL_MODE on (possibility of > 80x25 resolution) Message-ID: <201109131130.p8DBUFpg094262@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/160692; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: h h <aakuusta@gmail.com>
To: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/160692: FreeBSD must consider shipping with SC_PIXEL_MODE on (possibility of > 80x25 resolution)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:23:51 +0400
"Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>Description:
> In my private opinion we should seriously consider enabling
> SC_PIXEL_MODE by default in FreeBSD or, in the worst case, making it a
> tunable.
Can you be more specific? It's in GENERIC since r221743 (2011-05-10).
$ fgrep -i pixel /usr/src/sys/{i386,amd64}/conf/GENERIC
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:options SC_PIXEL_MODE # add support for the raster text mode
/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC:options SC_PIXEL_MODE # add support for the raster text mode
And more graphic modes are available after kldload'ing vesa.ko.
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