>> On a slightly related note, I am currently in the process of developing >> patches to add more useful "tweaked" modes to the video driver: >> graphics 720x480, 16 colors (90x30 8x16 character cells) >> graphics 256x256, 256 colors (32x32 8x8 character cells) >> graphics 296x220, 256 colors (37x27 8x8 character cells) >> text 90x25, 90x30, 90x43, 90x50, 90x60 >> >> The patches will also update vidcontrol to allow selecting any of the >> modes. > >Excuse me, but those modes are even more wierd than modex, either we stick >to the std modes, or we'll bloat the driver beyond repair, what I'm >stricktly against. All those wacky modes should be set from a module >or some such, they have NOTHING to do in the kernel pr default.
I found 90-column text modes are generally OK, when I looked at his submitted patch. It adds just few lines to the video driver. It is too small to make a KLD, so I included it to my recent patch as a kernel compile time option. I haven't seen the patch for "tweaked" graphics modes above. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
