kern/71142; VESA 1024x768 @ the console

[Joaquin Menchaca]

Hi.

I missed the boat on this one, what does this patch exactly do, and why 
is it needed?

  - joaquin

Nikolas Britton wrote:
> I got tired of having to patch by hand all the systems I wanted this 
> patch on and all the systems I patched but then updated with cvsup so I 
> made a simple batch script to do it for me, this script will do steps 
> 1...9 (see below). all you have to do is paste it into a file and then 
> run it as root (i.e. "sh vesa-patch-script"):
> 
> cd /tmp
> rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
> fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
> rm -r current-vesa_patch
> tar -zxvf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
> cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons
> patch </tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff
> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol
> cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1
> cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c
> make && make install && make clean
> 
> 
> Nikolas Britton wrote:
> 
>> Disclaimer!!!: please note that this patch was never meant for newbies 
>> and that if you decide to use it you are basically on your own if you 
>> have any problems with it. This patch is very much still in alpha 
>> status, but it does work and if It breaks your system you can always 
>> back it out.
>>
>>> 1. do I copy the patch exactly as is from the webpage?
>>>  
>>>
>> no, forget the patches from the webpage it's all messed up and you 
>> have to run it though scripts and edit it and stuff etc etc....
>> -----------------------------
>> Step 0: su to root.
>> Step 1: cd into /tmp
>> Step 2: fetch the patch: "fetch 
>> http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz"
>>
>> Alternate Source (these patches are from Deng XueFeng BTW): 
>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-08/att-2992/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz 
>>
>>
>> Step 3: Extract the files from the archive: "tar -zxvf curr*gz"
>> Step 4: cd into /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons
>> Step 5: patch the files: "patch 
>> </tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff" (make sure this applies 
>> cleanly, no error messages!)
>> Step 6: cd into /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol (usr.sbin is not a typo)
>> Step 7: Copy the file current-vidcontrol.1 here:  "cp 
>> /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1"
>> Step 8: Copy the file current-vidcontrol.c here:  "cp 
>> /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c"
>> Step 9: while your in there rebuild vidcontrol: "make && make install 
>> && make clean"
>> Step 10: cd into /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
>> (if you have never done this before then your kernel will be 
>> "GENERIC", if you have then you don't need me to explain what to do)
>> Step 11: Add the kernel option for VESA support to your kernel: echo 
>> "options VESA" >> GENERIC
>> Step 12: Add the kernel option for SC_PIXEL_MODE to your kernel: echo 
>> "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" >> GENERIC
>> Step 13: config your kernel: config GENERIC
>> Step 14: cd into ../compile/GENERIC
>> Step 15: rebuild your kernel: "make depend && make && make install"
>> Step 16: reboot
>> (After FreeBSD reboots and loads you will see this message several 
>> times (ignore it) "vidcontrol: showing the mouse: Invalid argument")
>> Step 17: login as root
>> Step 18: Now change the video mode "vidcontrol MODE_279"
>> (you should now have a console at 1024x768, if you don't you did 
>> something wrong.)
>> Step 19: If everthing seems ok then add it to the /etc/rc.conf file: 
>> allscreens_flags="MODE_279"
>> Step 20: reboot or do a "shutdown now"
>> Step 21: login as a normal user, you're done, have fun :-), report any 
>> bugs your having to I think ether freebsd-current or freebsd-hackers 
>> mailing lists.
>>
>> you can also use "vidcontrol -i mode | grep G" to see a complete list 
>> of supported modes (this is a list of modes supported by your video 
>> card, not your monitor!) and if you want you can play with these other 
>> modes "vidcontrol MODE_modenumber"
>>
>> Also note that if you try to update your sources with cvsup it will 
>> overwrite the changes you made to the files so you will have to redo 
>> steps 0 though 8 again (this is how you can back out the changes if 
>> you have problems with it).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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