Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 13:20:29 +0100 (CET) From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: j_mini@efn.org Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 132 Column mode on VGA Consoles Message-ID: <m0xhZVd-00024IC@bert.kts.org> In-Reply-To: <19971215011306.46218@micron.mini.net> from Jonathan Mini at "Dec 15, 97 01:13:06 am"
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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
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