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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:58:20 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Framebuffer driver?
Message-ID:  <200009221428.e8MESKZ00457@guppy.dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com>

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On 22-Sep-00 Graham Wheeler wrote:
> to run my 800x600 LCD screen as a 100x35 console, with a very readable
> font (better than any of the ones I've used on FreeBSD at 80x25). I
> imagine this makes X run more slowly, as it fails to use any hardware
> acceleration, but with a nice console like that my need for X is much
> reduced.

Try loading the VESA kld and playing with vidcontrol..

> There are a couple of other nice aspects - doing a `halt' actually
> powers down the laptop, which isn't the case with FreeBSD (but maybe
> I've just not configured apm properly on FreeSBD?). On the other hand,

If you configure your kernel with the apm driver and enable it (apm -e 1), then
you will be able to do 'shutdown -p now' which will power your machine down
when its ready.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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