On 3/7/2012 2:06 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > If you're looking for something minimal, vector support should be one of the > first things to go. At small sizes (in terms of dots), the best fonts are all > bitmaps, rather than vector descriptions. One of the features of TrueType and > Postscript is that a vendor can provide hand-tweaked bitmap glyphs for small > sizes of a vector font. Likewise the VT100 demonstrated that you don't need > vector line drawing to draw boxes. Some points to keep in mind: Anything > beyond what is supported in your VESA BIOS requires custom support for your > specific video chip. This is part of the code in x11-drivers/xf86-video-*. LCD > monitors look fairly poor unless driven at their native resolution so, unless > your VESA BIOS provide a mode that suits your monitor, you will need custom > driver code.
I do plan on writing a small little driver for NVIDIA cards (it's what I have). I'm assuming it can't be terribly hard to detect the monitor's resolution, set to that resolution, then start displaying dots... you never know though... I'll be having a fun time with nouveau for the next few weeks :) -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
