From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 13:32:23 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 538AE16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC67B43D2F for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i0TLWG2h031835; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:16 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i0TLWGSY031834; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:16 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:16 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Jesse Guardiani Message-ID: <20040129213215.GA30409@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raster display problem (FreeBSD vs Linux) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:32:23 -0000 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:22:34PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Bruce M Simpson wrote: >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > KGI is coming soon -- see the current FreeBSD Status Report. >=20 > Is that the only new functionality that KGI will bring? A graphical conso= le? > 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 l= ike > my text console just fine. :) >=20 > 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. I believe it or something like it is necessicary in order to support consoles other then serial on IA64 and possiably sparc64. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGXvfXY6L6fI4GtQRAq3RAJ9/j+Dkw2h4zErsWXoZJoeIa9raawCgwyvh N5Rs1biNjQg8AdYEc+8Byn4= =V6sn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--