framebuffers?

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in 
> FreeBSD too.  
> 
> I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with "options VESA" 
> enabled.  Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf: 
> 	font8x8="/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt"
> 	allscreen_flags="132x43"
> and rebooted, but it still doesn't work.  
> 
> Can anyone help me with this?  
> 
> Many thanks, 

Hi,

the same problem was on my side.
All (except one) VESA modes did not satisfy me.

But I found something:
Try the VESA_800x600 mode (see man vidcontrol) - to do so 
run vidconrtol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600.

First you have to recompile your kernel with:
- options SC_OIXEL_MODE enabled (so you can use the raster text mode).
- compile the vesa support or simply load it with kldload vesa
- vidconrtol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600.

If it is o.k. for you put in your /etc/rc.conf file:

allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" and add to /boot/loader.conf:
vesa_load="YES" to load the vesa module at startup.

Oliver
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