Re: kern/71142; VESA 1024x768 _at_ the console

Michal Mertl wrote:

>Xin LI wrote:
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>>(CC'ed to dsnofe as he has shown interest of this)
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>>Yes, a patchset candidate is available at:
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>>http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa
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>>This is what I am running with, minus a moused rc.d script patch which
>>can be found in the original PR.
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>>Unfortunately I sometimes get odd reboots when trying to start GNOME
>>without any panics/coredumps, and attaching a USB mouse will clear the
>>screen with a claim that "Inappropriate ioctl" or something similiar.
>>
>>I will commit the patch if there's no apparent problems with it.
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>I have also modified the original patch a bit. The main difference in my
>version is that I support any mode vesa bios in your card does.
>
>Patch against current from October attached. I can help you finding and
>possibly merging the differences. I think we really should add 8 bit
>support - the only think needed is to be able to programm the palette.
>The high/true color modes are pretty slow even on modern hardware. If
>there's interest I think I can add it.
>
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I personally have been using the patch set that was posted by Deng
XueFeng:
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-08/att-2992/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz

I have not had any major problems (only minor, like the moused error and
console sluggishness) with it and have it running on my main desktop
(MODE_282, 1280x1024x16), 3 servers, and 2 laptops (MODE_279) which are
running RELENG_5_3. I've made a ghetto batch script to apply this patch:

cd /tmp
rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
rm -r current-vesa_patch
tar -zxvf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons
patch </tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol
cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1
cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c
make && make install && make clean