Re: vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community

On Mi, 6.04.2005, 14:59, Robert Backhaus sagte:
> On Apr 6, 2005 5:12 AM, Didier Wiroth <didier.wiroth_at_mcesr.etat.lu> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if the patches  (see link below) have any chances to
>> make their ways into a future release version or may be in the ports
>> collection?
>
> I agree that it would make life more enjoyable for some people, but
> the console is increasingly a fail-safe debugging/configuring
> interface, as more people use X for any work.
ACK.
On one hand it would be pretty useful to have a high resolution console,
on the other hand, I wouldn't like to see the FreeBSD Kernel crashing
while booting, because of some faulty graphics card.
I recently had the problem on Gentoo Linux (2.6.8), that it just didn't
recognized my graphics card and therefor the kernel crashed due to some
framebuffer problems.
That's annoying!
If FreeBSD would implement a high resolution console (by use of either
FrameBuffer or VESA), than it never ever should be the default for your
installation.
And even if you enabled it, the kernel should never crash. Instead it
should give an error message, telling me "Hej buddy, your graphics card
won't work with VESA" and then scaling down to old fashioned low res
console ...


> Yes, I would use it myself in places, especially laptops, but I would
> not like it there if it possibly made the console less stable.
> It would want to be very well tested. I'd slate it for 6.Stable, when
> it occours.

Doesn't matter to me wether I'll have this feature in 6-stable or MFC'ed
to RELENG_5. It has to be stable.

best regards,
Marian