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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Better Text modes
Date: 14 Aug 1995 10:21:51 +0200
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S. Lee <sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> wrote:
>Is there something like Linux's SVGATextMode for FreeBSD? i.e. something
>that let me get 132x43 text mode with high refresh rate, 9x16 character
>cells, etc on my S3 SVGA. I can only get pcvt to do 80x50 with 8x8
>characters...
Perhaps your chipset is unknown to pcvt. If we had more time, we
would already have generalized the way different VGAs are being
handled...
>Also, how does one do VGA/SVGA programming under FreeBSD?
Only in the hacky way the X server is doing. (Basically, turning the
VT into `graphics' mode, ie. telling the kernel that the application
is now dealing itself with the adaptor. The application should
register a signal with the kernel to be notified whenever a VT switch
has been requested.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)