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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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