Re: [CALL FOR TESTERS] VESA High Resolution Console support from DragonFly

From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova_at_fbsd.ru>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:27:41 +0400
В ср, 08/06/2005 в 17:29 -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet пишет:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> > ? ??, 08/06/2005 ? 14:56 -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet ?????:
> >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> >>> ? ??, 22/05/2005 ? 19:26 +0800, Xin LI ?????:
> >>>>
> >>>> I would like to solicit a test of the following patchset which is based
> >>>> on DragonFly's changes, against -CURRENT, to bring high resolution console
> >>>> support to FreeBSD.  The current patchset can be considered as "BETA" and
> >>>> I would commit it if there is no complain about this patchset in the next
> >>>> week.
> >>> [ ... cut ... ]
> >>>> Please let me know if anything strange happens;  While I have been running
> >>>> with the patch for a while, I would still be happy if you will report that
> >>>> it works :-)
> >>>
> >>> Tried fresh 6-CURRENT, all seems ok, but,
> >>> switching console to pixel-mode 1400x1050 screen takes about 1-2 sec, I
> >>> guess it is too much. (it happens in both cases
> >>>
> >>> Also, I had freezed box when switching from X to console some times.
> >>
> >> Let me guess... It's a laptop screen or an LCD panel?
> >
> > Yes, exactly, it is sony vzio z1.
> >
> > (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: Samsung LTN150P1-L02
> > (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 1400x1050
> > (II) RADEON(0): BIOS provided dividers will be used.
> 
> Most laptop LCDs and cheaper desktop panels take a while (The dreaded 
> second or two) to switch resolutions. Try the patch with an external crt 
> monitor plugged in and display mirroring enabled to see the difference for 
> yourself (Or simply try it on a desktop with a radeon card and a crt).

I have got a maximum waiting for switching from X to console (X screen
disappeared very quick) - about 10 secs, probably it related to some
disk activity, can syscon pages be swapped ? 

> Andy
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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova_at_fbsd.ru
Received on Fri Jun 10 2005 - 07:27:43 UTC

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