Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> All those things work only under i386 right ?
> There is no option VESA in amd64 ?
Right. Calling function in the VESA BIOS (which is 32bit
i386 code) is not supported under FreeBSD/amd64.
Best regards
Oliver
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +, John Walthall wrote:
> No Matter what I try, I get "cannot open raster device, inapropriate ioctl
> for this device". I have made sure that I have VESA loaded, etc.
This sounds like your kernel is not compiled with "options
SC_PIXEL_MODE".
Craig
> Oops, I was mistaken. 800x600x4 (MODE_258) is what I'm using.
> 800x600x8 returns "Operation not supported" when trying to switch to it,
> as do both 4 and 8 bit 1024x768 modes. 16-bit and 32-bit modes work at
> the higher resolution but they're slow as molasses so I don't use
> them(1).
No Ma
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:27:46PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> I think 800x600x4 would be even quicker, because no VESA
> calls are required at all for screen output.
Oops, I was mistaken. 800x600x4 (MODE_258) is what I'm using.
800x600x8 returns "Operation not supported" when trying to switch
> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:13:33 +0300
> From: Stefan Lambrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi list,
>
> All those things work only under i386 right ?
> There is no option VESA in amd64 ?
>
> Andrei Kolu wrote:
> > On Friday 06 April 2007 02:43, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
Hi list,
All those things work only under i386 right ?
There is no option VESA in amd64 ?
Andrei Kolu wrote:
On Friday 06 April 2007 02:43, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I always run a 2000 line scrollback buffer. 200 won't make it to the
start of my boot. And, it's SC_HISTORY_SIZE. I'm unclear as t
On Friday 06 April 2007 02:43, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I always run a 2000 line scrollback buffer. 200 won't make it to the
> start of my boot. And, it's SC_HISTORY_SIZE. I'm unclear as to what you
> refer to as 'slideshow" like teleporting', though.
in case someone want colourful console
opti
Hi Kevin,
yes you are right my systems also loses lines,
i believe that the mechanics in vidcontrol or in the kernels syscons
device are the sources of this behaviour
...because through the init ( blanks screen and set mode )..
About the buffer at this time I am not really sure, but in the k
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 00:31:45 +0200
> From: "Michael Schuh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi Kevin,
> hi @list,
>
> ok losing data in output is not really nice,
> in my experiences i don't lose lines, they get
> not displayed, if i use scroll-lock and pg-up, i can see the
> lines they was on the scr
Hi Kevin,
hi @list,
ok losing data in output is not really nice,
in my experiences i don't lose lines, they get
not displayed, if i use scroll-lock and pg-up, i can see the
lines they was on the screen before i change the mode.
If you need more lines in buffer (esp. to supress losing lines)
you
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:57:09 +0200
> From: "Michael Schuh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi,
>
> first i understand your need's right! More Text on screen at boot time,
> but i have never get this working at boot time, but directly after boot.
>
> In my case my Kernels
Craig Boston wrote:
> [...]
> I only wish 1024x768x4 worked right as (on most cheap video hardware
> anyway) pushing all the data for 16-bit modes though VESA is quite slow.
> As it's mostly an IO bandwidth issue, the planar modes should be faster.
> I can get 800x600x8 working and it's defini
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:25:46AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> FWIW, most of the time machines boot without _anyone_
> watching anyway. If you need to see the boot messages,
> you ssh into the box and type "dmesg -a" or look at the
> file /var/run/dmesg.boot (and /var/log/console.log
> which can
JoaoBR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 00:05, you wrote:
> > Console is not intended for everyday use! You should login
> > to your FreeBSD box with ssh-client of your choise and from
> > the OS of your choise (preferably from graphic mode).
>
> please stay on topic
On 04/04/07, JoaoBR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 00:05, you wrote:
> Console is not intended for everyday use! You should login
> to your FreeBSD box with ssh-client of your choise and from
> the OS of your choise (preferably from graphic mode).
>
please stay on topic
th
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 19:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 04/04/07, JoaoBR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > don't try to be smart with me
> > nobody said that RH is professional because of it's graphics in console
> > I said that for example RH looks professional with the graphic boot they
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 04:49, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Apr-03 14:27:00 -0300, JoaoBR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >simply consider RH graphical boot in 1024x768 has a very professional look
> >while Freebsd still looks like Gate's MsDos before selling it to IBM
>
> I don't understand why d
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 00:05, you wrote:
> Console is not intended for everyday use! You should login
> to your FreeBSD box with ssh-client of your choise and from
> the OS of your choise (preferably from graphic mode).
>
please stay on topic
the question is not what one should or not
but to
On 2007-Apr-03 14:27:00 -0300, JoaoBR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>simply consider RH graphical boot in 1024x768 has a very professional look
>while Freebsd still looks like Gate's MsDos before selling it to IBM
I don't understand why displaying a silly graphic whilst hiding the
boot messages is p
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 15:02, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:27 am, JoaoBR wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 April 2007 12:18, Freddie Cash wrote:
>
> Just a note that the above should read:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 05:45 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> As I am not the one who wrote the
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:27 am, JoaoBR wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 12:18, Freddie Cash wrote:
Just a note that the above should read:
On Monday 02 April 2007 05:45 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
As I am not the one who wrote the following line, but Daniel is. :)
> > > I don't understand wh
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 12:18, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > I don't understand why people who want high resolution consoles don't
> > run X.
that is very easy to understand, look:
A/ fits much more info on one screen
B/ line wraps do not complicate orientation on screen
both points are very usefull
On Monday 02 April 2007 05:45 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 06:24, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > 1024x768 is a pretty standard VESA mode used on a lot of people's
> > text consoles. :) On most videocards, MODE_279 will be 1024x768
> > w/16 bpp colour. Check the output of "vidco
That cleared it up. I needed to enable some stuff in my kernel, which was
why vidcontrol wasn't working. I thought it was an error on my behalf.
Thanks.
On 4/2/07, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 02 April 2007 01:55:45 pm Schiz0 wrote:
> I'm wondering how you can increase the
I'd just like to be able to type commands without having them wrap to the
next line. Same goes to compiling software: More screen space = Less data
flying by at once = More time to read whatever's going on, let it be errors,
warnings, whatever.
And in my case, because I'm running it in VMWare at
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 06:24, Freddie Cash wrote:
> 1024x768 is a pretty standard VESA mode used on a lot of people's text
> consoles. :) On most videocards, MODE_279 will be 1024x768 w/16 bpp
> colour. Check the output of "vidcontrol -i". You'll see a lot of
> different modes, some text, som
On Monday 02 April 2007 12:07 pm, Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Schiz0 wrote:
> > I'm wondering how you can increase the resolution of the console in
> > FreeBSD stable. I have read the man page on vidcontrol and googled
> > around a bit, but I'm still confused about what to do. I'm cur
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Schiz0 wrote:
Hey,
I'm wondering how you can increase the resolution of the console in
FreeBSD stable. I have read the man page on vidcontrol and googled around
a bit, but I'm still confused about what to do. I'm currently running
FreeBSD in VMWare on a windows machine (But
On Monday 02 April 2007 01:55:45 pm Schiz0 wrote:
> I'm wondering how you can increase the resolution of the console in FreeBSD
> stable. I have read the man page on vidcontrol and googled around a bit,
> but I'm still confused about what to do. I'm currently running FreeBSD in
> VMWare on a window
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