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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:03:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Howard Goldstein <hg@ParView.com>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: svga and pico
Message-ID:  <13943.48558.907399.183707@slice.parview.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812152223180.3364-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
References:  <13942.41325.353477.236495@slice.parview.com> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812152223180.3364-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>

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Andrzej Bialecki writes:
 > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Howard Goldstein wrote:
 > 
 > > Well, I've sold freebsd as the platform so now I have to make it work :-)
 > > 
 > > Anyone have thoughts on doing 640x480x256 without running X?  
 > 
 > Sure. There are two steps for it:
 > 
 > * Compile in (or kldload) the VESA module. You need VM86 as well to make
 > it work.

I'm going to try this just to get me going 

 > 
 > * Bug Soren Schmidt to provide patches for libvgl to handle VESA modes
 > (ca. 2 months ago he said they are almost ready... ;-)

Bad news on this: Soren wrote the patches worked but disappeared
when his machine was stolen a few months ago :-(

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