Jay O'Brien wrote: > Michal Mertl wrote: > > > Didier Wiroth wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I'm using freebsd 5.4-prerelease on my laptop. My laptop has an ati > >>mobility radeon 9600. > >>Unfortunately it has very poor console vesa support. SC_PIXEL_MODE does > >>not work, 90x60 is the highest resolution I can get for now. > >>It looks like I'm not the only one having this problem with ati > >>chipsets: > >>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1091839+1096057+/usr/local/w > >>ww/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050123.freebsd-questions > >> > >> > >>I saw this posting: > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-August/035621.ht > >>ml > >> > >>Unfortunately I'm not a programmer and have no ... to very poor patching > >>skills. > >>It looks to me, that in this posting(s) a "few" patches are grouped > >>together to enable vesa 1024x768. > >> > >>1) Has someone applied this patches? > >>2) As the patch(es) is/are on the entire page, I don't know how to > >>separate them. Would someone mail me as an attachment the different > >>patches and tell me how I should apply them: > >>for example, mail me patch1, patch2, patch3 > >>and the explanation how to patch them: > >>cd /usr/src > >>patch < ~/patch1 > >>patch < ~/patch2 ...etc > > > > > > I think the newest and probably best (?) patch was prepared by Xin Li > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who is also committer. I sent this email to him > > (or she? - sorry about that) in case he has some comments. Beware that > > he said he experienced some problems with previous version of the patch. > > > > I haven't tested this version of the patch myself but it at least > > compiles. > > > > It's available at http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa/ > > in files syscons.diff.20050215 and vidcontrol.diff.20050215 > > > > You would apply them with: > > > > cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons > > patch < /path/syscons.diff.20050215 > > cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol > > patch </path/vidcontrol.diff.20050215 > > make clean > > make all > > make install > > > > You need also to rebuild and reinstall the kernel. You must have > > 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE' in your kernel config. You also need to have > > VESA available - you can load it with kldload vesa or include it in the > > kernel with 'options VESA'. > > > > After reboot with the new kernel you should be able to get list of all > > VESA and standard modes your card support with 'vidcontrol -i mode'. To > > be able to use them as your console mode you need to have the > > appropriate font loaded. The font resolution is seen in vidcontrol > > output in the 'font' column. To load the font 8x8 you can use > > 'vidcontrol -f /usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp437-8x8.fnt' or similar. To > > set the mode use 'vidcontrol MODE_$num' where $num is the mode number > > (first column in 'vidcontrol -i mode' output). > > > > HTH > > > > Michal > > > > > > > I feel like I am missing a lot here. I want to display 132 characters per > line on my console. I am not running X Windows and it is not a notebook.
It doesn't matter. I only saw the most complaints from notebook owners who didn't have text mode console covering all LCD surface. > I am running 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0. > > What is this SC_PIXEL_MODE and where may I find documentation on it? I > don't find it in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES. man syscons(4). It's also mentioned in NOTES although not the NOTES you were looking at. Don't forget that on 5.x there are two conf directories - one platform independent in /sys/conf and other in /sys/$ARCH/conf. Common (platform independent) options like this one are in /sys/conf/NOTES. > To "rebuild and reinstall the kernel", after editing my > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC to insert 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE', would I > 'make buildkernel' and then 'make installkernel' or is there something > else I'm missing? No, that's the way to do it. > I note that some of the messages are posted to multiple mailing lists, > and I suspect that as I only read [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not seeing > the entire story. I'm afraid that's quite possible. Please go search the archives. > Jay O'Brien > Rio Linda, California USA Michal Mertl Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
