On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:44:14PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Hi all
>
> In my neverending quest to get my lousy Compaq laptop's Synaptics touch
> pad to work (a problem with which many of you are now familiar!), I
> finally got around to installing Linux (Mandrake 7.1) a week ago. The
> jury is still out on whether this is going to solve my problems - I have
> found a kernel patch that seems to help, but I'm playing with too many
> variables right now and need some time to be more systematic - but in
> the process, I've found one feature of Linux that I really like, which
> may be enough for me to keep using it on the laptop over FreeBSD. That
> feature is the VESA framebuffer driver for the console, which allows me
> to run my 800x600 LCD screen as a 100x35 console, with a very readable
> font (better than any of the ones I've used on FreeBSD at 80x25). I
Have you tried vidcontrol VESA_800x600 or vidcontrol 132x60 under FreeBSD?
-past
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