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

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:24:57 -0500
Xin LI wrote:
> Dear -CURRENT users,
> 
> 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.
> 
> The patchset can be found at:
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa/patchset-highres.20050522
> 
> To use it, you will need latest -CURRENT code, and apply the patchset at
> toplevel source tree, i.e. /usr/src for usual cases.  Then you need to build
> and reinstall your kernel, with 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE' compiled in, and
> optionally options VESA if you don't want to manually load VESA support
> module.  A make buildworld/installworld is recommended, but I believe that
> just rebuild/reinstall usr.sbin/vidcontrol is enough to get your hands on
> the support for using something like 'vidcontrol MODE_239' or so, which will
> switch the current console to that mode.  Some mode may not work on certain
> cards, though.
> 
> 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 :-)

This seems to work nicely for me (Dell Latitude D610, Radeon X300, 
1400x1050x16,24,or 32).  Only thing I saw was my machine locked up once 
after leaving X, but I could not reproduce it.

Eric



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Received on Mon May 23 2005 - 13:25:14 UTC

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