From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 7:42:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E9D37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA10787; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:41:36 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 10785; Fri Sep 22 16:41:06 2000 Message-ID: <39CB6FF5.FDE57266@cequrux.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:43:01 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Winn Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? References: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com> <002201c0249d$995d2e20$1d48b6ca@mysterious> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Winn wrote: > > If you include 'options VESA' or load the vesa.ko, and load an appropriate > 8x8 font, you can use VESA video modes. > > vidcontrol supports VESA_800x600 with an option 'SC_PIXEL_MODE' > > 'man vidcontrol' has more details about this.... (I've never actually tried > it myself, only noticed it when I was looking for 80x50 information :) Looking at the modes, though, it looks like there are only 80 column and 132 column ones. I can't see that a 800x600 LCD will support 132 column text. As I mentioned, under Linux I'm getting 100 columns. I like this extra width more than I like the extra height (I tend to have mc running most of the time, and its great with the extra width). -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message