From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 13:22:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB2B16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228BC43D45 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:22:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmJcS-0006oj-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:22:36 +0100 Received: from makrothumia.wingnet.net ([206.30.215.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu Jan 29 21:22:36 2004 Received: from jesse by makrothumia.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu Jan 29 21:22:36 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:22:34 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F5D99CA@exchange.wanglobal.net> <6.0.1.1.2.20040127082047.04034ec0@194.184.65.7> <20040128224544.GK2869@saboteur.dek.spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: makrothumia.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: raster display problem (FreeBSD vs Linux) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:22:39 -0000 Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:25:58AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >> The fact seems not related to a particular Linux distro, but seems more >> generalized, infact I tested a few ones and all succeded in using such >> mode. Let's see if our console driver support it in the future... It is >> not very useful on productive server, but it is very cute on a laptop >> workstation. > > KGI is coming soon -- see the current FreeBSD Status Report. Is that the only new functionality that KGI will bring? A graphical console? I used Debian a few times with the framebuffer enabled and it was a mess on my laptop. I couldn't even see the bottom 10 lines of the console. :) I like my text console just fine. :) Or does KGI also promise video driver interoperability between Linux and FreeBSD? That would be pretty neat, but doesn't X11 already provide this? I'm just not seeing the benefit to KGI. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net