VESA video modes for vidcontrol

[Deng XueFeng]

check
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71748
I just send that.
and there are all three patches.
:-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Larkowski" <peter at larkowski.net>
To: "Deng XueFeng" <dsnofe at msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: VESA video modes for vidcontrol


> Thanks for the reply.  Is that the entire patch?  That part applied
> cleanly, and builds fine, but it doesn't seem to patch vidcontrol so I
> didn't know if it was all I needed or not, although the resulting
> vidcontrol binary is different from the one build with no patch applied.
> In any case, I couldn't make it do anything.   I was trying vidcontrol
> MODE_??? where ??? is a number shown in vidcontrol -i mode.  I tryed
> several modes (all the 1024x768 modes listed and a few 1280x1024 modes).
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Here's what I get:
> # vidcontrol MODE_279
> usage: vidcontrol [-CdHLPpx] [-b color] [-c appearance] [-f [size] file]
>                  [-g geometry] [-h size] [-i adapter | mode] [-l
> screen_map]
>                  [-M char] [-m on | off] [-r foreground background]
>                  [-S on | off] [-s number] [-t N | off] [mode]
>                  [foreground [background]] [show]
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -p
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Deng XueFeng wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:52:29 +0800
>> From: Deng XueFeng <dsnofe at msn.com>
>> To: Peter Larkowski <peter at larkowski.net>, freebsd-current at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: VESA video modes for vidcontrol
>>
>> the later version is . It cleanly apply 6-current(i don't test 5.3)
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2197612+0+archive/2004/freebsd-current/20040905.freebsd-current
>>
>> and i will check the new changes from dfbsd this evening.
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Peter Larkowski" <peter at larkowski.net>
>> To: <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:17 AM
>> Subject: VESA video modes for vidcontrol
>>
>>
>> > Last month and earlier this month there were some posts about a patch 
>> > that
>> > allows you use vesa modes such as 1024x768 and higher.  I'm wondering 
>> > what
>> > the status of that patch is now.  Has it been committed to -CURRENT?  I
>> > couldn't get it to apply cleanly to 5.3-BETA4 (RELENG_5) from 
>> > yesterday,
>> > so I was wondering if there was a new version, or if I need CURRENT to
>> > apply the patches.
>> >
>> > The earlier threads I'm refering to are here
>> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-August/035621.html
>> > and
>> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/036249.html
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