From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 15 05:03:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA25165 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 05:03:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA25150 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 05:03:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0xha9r-0032hIC; Mon, 15 Dec 97 14:02 MET Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 13:28:54 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #2 built 1997-Feb-8) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 13:20:29 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: 132 Column mode on VGA Consoles In-Reply-To: <19971215011306.46218@micron.mini.net> from Jonathan Mini at "Dec 15, 97 01:13:06 am" To: j_mini@efn.org Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 13:20:29 +0100 (CET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Mini wrote: > > As soon as the vesa code goes in, there will be _three_ possible sources of > contention over the system console's device(s), the Xfree86 system, the VESA > library, and syscons itself. Hopefully this implementation will allow other "drivers" than syscons. If it would, it would we one step towards the unified console driver we are talking about since 386bsd 0.1. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw)