Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:13:03 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> Subject: Re: vidcontrol modes for ATI ES1000 Message-ID: <200708231213.16908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200708230030.05749.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> References: <200708230030.05749.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de>
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--nextPart2758030.gj0y55rb62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Does vidconsole (SC) rely on the VGA BIOS? > If so probably it's not the best designed VGA BIOS. AFAIK yes. > Are there any other ways to get 800x600 Text console? > The funny thing is that accessing the EFI shell(or even just booting) > the board uses a higher resolution (800x600 I think), so it doesn't > use the promoted mode itself! Use X :) (Goes a lot faster that VESA pixel displays) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2758030.gj0y55rb62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGzPRE5ZPcIHs/zowRAiwyAJ9QHOe8mYOdBZ5CrlqpDUhn4j6/kgCeNB1i oNIFovEN33s3lHwf28QFyXo= =JhhS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2758030.gj0y55rb62--
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