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

From: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft_at_gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:06:24 +0200
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:08 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Almost everything seems to work absolutely great.  Except for one minor
> > detail:
> > 
> > When I double click on a word, to select this word in a console window,
> > the characters under the cursor and 1-2 characters after it get messed
> > up a bit (i.e. foreground and background colors getting a bit mixed up
> > where the cursor "covers" parts of the characters).
> 
> Confirmed.
> 
> Another question : many notebook screens now support what I would call
> bastard resolution (something like 1280x800 IIRC).  Is there any way to
> get these kind of modes ?  Currently it seems not, but I wonder if it
> would be easily possible.

I got following modes listed that just work fine:

380 (0x17c) 0x0000000f G 1280x800x8 1    8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0xe8000000 32576k
381 (0x17d) 0x0000000f G 1280x800x16 1   8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0xe8000000 32576k
382 (0x17e) 0x0000000f G 1280x800x32 1   8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0xe8000000 32576k

-- 
Stefan Ehmann
Received on Mon May 23 2005 - 07:06:29 UTC

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