Jay O'Brien píše v ne 10. 04. 2005 v 15:21 -0700: > Michal Mertl wrote: > > There's no standard VGA 132 character text mode. It's either provided by > > VESA or emulated using some graphics mode. Newer graphics hardware > > stopped supporting extended text modes. If you want such modes you need > > to emulate them (render the characters using lots of small dots instead > > of just writing characters to the adapter which renders them for you). > > Support for this functionality is included in syscons/vga driver when > > you define options SC_PIXEL_MODE. Standard FreeBSD supports only planar > > graphics mode 800x600 dots with 4 bits (16) of color information per > > pixel which can be run on old plain VGA with 256KB of memory. > > > > The patches we are talking about add support for rendering the > > characters in any graphics mode your card supports (through VESA) with > > >= 15 bits per pixel. You could then run say 1600x1200x32 bpp (16milions > > of colours) for a text mode console. You can't use any graphics there > > but the textual resolution will be bigger. There also isn't support for > > using simultaneously more than 16 (or is it 15?) different colors for > > characters even when milions are technically possible. > > > > Thanks for the explanation, it is appreciated. I tried the process and > encountered errors. Here's what happened: > > patch </tmp/syscons.diff.20050215 this went fine. > patch </tmp/vidcontrol.diff.20050215 returned errors as shown below: > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > # patch </tmp/vidcontrol.diff.20050215 Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to > me... > The text leading up to this was: > -------------------------- > |Index: vidcontrol.1 > |=================================================================== > |RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1,v > |retrieving revision 1.55 > |diff -u -r1.55 vidcontrol.1 > |--- vidcontrol.1 2 Mar 2003 21:04:21 -0000 1.55 > |+++ vidcontrol.1 17 Jan 2005 05:27:25 -0000 > -------------------------- > Patching file vidcontrol.1 using Plan A... > Hunk #1 succeeded at 11. > Hunk #2 succeeded at 88. > Hunk #3 succeeded at 297. > Hunk #4 succeeded at 532. > Hmm... The next patch looks like a unified diff to me... > The text leading up to this was: > -------------------------- > |Index: vidcontrol.c > |=================================================================== > |RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c,v > |retrieving revision 1.48 > |diff -u -r1.48 vidcontrol.c > |--- vidcontrol.c 13 Jan 2005 03:59:44 -0000 1.48 > |+++ vidcontrol.c 17 Jan 2005 05:27:25 -0000 > -------------------------- > Patching file vidcontrol.c using Plan A... > Hunk #1 succeeded at 24. > Hunk #2 succeeded at 48. > Hunk #3 succeeded at 66 with fuzz 1. > Hunk #4 failed at 187. > Hunk #5 succeeded at 223. > Hunk #6 failed at 239. > Hunk #7 failed at 257. > Hunk #8 failed at 297. > Hunk #9 failed at 332. > Hunk #10 succeeded at 348 with fuzz 2. > Hunk #11 failed at 377. > Hunk #12 failed at 419. > Hunk #13 failed at 507. > Hunk #14 failed at 572. > Hunk #15 failed at 669. > Hunk #16 failed at 722. > Hunk #17 failed at 743. > Hunk #18 failed at 806. > Hunk #19 succeeded at 891. > Hunk #20 failed at 900. > Hunk #21 failed at 933. > Hunk #22 succeeded at 950 with fuzz 2. > Hunk #23 failed at 962. > Hunk #24 failed at 985. > Hunk #25 failed at 1035. > Hunk #26 failed at 1050. > Hunk #27 succeeded at 1148. > Hunk #28 succeeded at 1173. > Hunk #29 succeeded at 1217. > Hunk #30 succeeded at 1234. > 19 out of 30 hunks failed--saving rejects to vidcontrol.c.rej > done > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > Not being a c programmer, I can't understand what the > vidcontrol.c.rej file is trying to tell me. It is a 29K file. > > As I recalled a previous email telling someone to go ahead > anyway, I went ahead with make clean and that went ok. Then I > did make all and here's the results:
You haven't read the thread in the archives carefully enough, have you? Here is what I wrote (privately to the original poster but I explained the error to the mailing list too): > What? I don't know how the patching of vidcontrol ended but you'd > better redo it with fresh files from current. Go download vidcontrol.c > v 1.48 and vidcontrol.1 from > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/ > > Then run the patch on it again and recompile/reinstall vidcontrol > binary. Michal _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
