framebuffers?

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> In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said:
> > 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.  
> 
> Try VESA_132x43.  I'm not sure why all the modes aren't just WxH.  Your
> card also needs to be able to support that vesa mode; you can run
> "vidcontrol -i mode | grep T" to list the text modes your card can do.

You may need to tweak your kernel config file,
or kldload vesa for this to work.

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