Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 19:26:12 +0800 From: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org Subject: [CALL FOR TESTERS] VESA High Resolution Console support from DragonFly Message-ID: <20050522112612.GA37841@frontfree.net>
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--EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear -CURRENT users, I would like to solicit a test of the following patchset which is based on DragonFly's changes, against -CURRENT, to bring high resolution console support to FreeBSD. The current patchset can be considered as "BETA" and I would commit it if there is no complain about this patchset in the next week. The patchset can be found at: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa/patchset-highres.20050522 To use it, you will need latest -CURRENT code, and apply the patchset at toplevel source tree, i.e. /usr/src for usual cases. Then you need to build and reinstall your kernel, with 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE' compiled in, and optionally options VESA if you don't want to manually load VESA support module. A make buildworld/installworld is recommended, but I believe that just rebuild/reinstall usr.sbin/vidcontrol is enough to get your hands on the support for using something like 'vidcontrol MODE_239' or so, which will switch the current console to that mode. Some mode may not work on certain cards, though. Please let me know if anything strange happens; While I have been running with the patch for a while, I would still be happy if you will report that it works :-) Thanks in advance! Cheers, --=20 Xin LI <delphij frontfree net> http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information. --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCkGxU/cVsHxFZiIoRAuafAJ9dW49OGBTk1tNASuavzS/w4/JkvQCfc4Mo V7Ki38uy2BeWHFkVBcTDL5c= =vftH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--
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