Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:25:58 +0100 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@cecov.masternet.it> To: Sten Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no>, <mobile@freebsd.org> Cc: esperti@gufi.org Subject: RE: raster display problem (FreeBSD vs Linux) Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040127082047.04034ec0@194.184.65.7> In-Reply-To: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F5D99CA@exchange.wanglobal. net> References: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F5D99CA@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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At 26/01/2004, Sten Daniel S=F8rsdal wrote: > > I have a fujitsu-siemens lifebook s6120, running FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE. > > I'd like to set the console display to the VESA_800x600. > > >Your card does not appear to support 800x600x4 which is required for=20 >VESA_800x600. >VESA_800x600 is a text mode hack and Linux probably has a much better=20 >video console >driver. > >_// Sten Daniel S=F8rsdal Thanks for your answer. The fact seems not related to a particular Linux distro, but seems more=20 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= =20 useful on productive server, but it is very cute on a laptop workstation. Thanks again for your answer... Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco
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