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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:16 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: raster display problem (FreeBSD vs Linux)
Message-ID:  <20040129213215.GA30409@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <bvbtiq$kbj$2@sea.gmane.org>
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:22:34PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>=20
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:25:58AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> >> The fact seems not related to a particular Linux distro, but seems more
> >> 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 useful on productive server, but it is very cute on a laptop
> >> workstation.
> >=20
> > KGI is coming soon -- see the current FreeBSD Status Report.
>=20
> Is that the only new functionality that KGI will bring? A graphical conso=
le?
> I used Debian a few times with the framebuffer enabled and it was a mess =
on
> my laptop. I couldn't even see the bottom 10 lines of the console. :) I l=
ike
> my text console just fine. :)
>=20
> Or does KGI also promise video driver interoperability between Linux
> and FreeBSD?  That would be pretty neat, but doesn't X11 already
> provide this? I'm just not seeing the benefit to KGI.

I believe it or something like it is necessicary in order to support
consoles other then serial on IA64 and possiably sparc64.

-- Brooks

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