[BETA PATCH] VESA mode support for syscons

[Deng XueFeng]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sascha Wildner" <saw at online.de>
To: "Deng XueFeng" <dsnofe at msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [BETA PATCH] VESA mode support for syscons


> Deng XueFeng wrote:
> 
>>>Thanks. It seems to me that the modes you were writing about are not 
>>>true VESA modes (at least the card doesn't return info on them). I guess 
>> 
>> what's info?
>> could you give a example or you dmesg file?
> 
> Deng,
> 
> during kernel initialization the VESA module probes all possible mode 
> numbers and looks if the adapter returns a valid mode. In your dmesg you 
> can see that no WXGA modes are recognized and they are also not 
> rejected. So I think this is because these modes are only accessible to 
> hardware specific drivers.
Thanks to explain this. I wanna try linux to see what mode  it support.

> 
> Oh, I saw that there are threads on freebsd-current. The issues people 
> are having there with their moused complaining are due to some changes 
> in vidcontrol that DragonFly has done. Since the mouse pointer is common 
> to all terminals it can be turned on (and off) only once. After that, it 
> has to be turned off again. moused RCNG tries to turn it on multiple 
> times. This is a bug. Compare our version of moused RCNG at 
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/moused?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup 
> to yours to see where the problem lies.
I have send the patch to Cyrille Lefevre <clefevr-current at 9online.fr> who sendpr.
but forget Cc to maillist.

> 
> I'm gonna put up a new version of the patch later this evening to be 
> committed within the next few days. It has been cleaned up and extended 
> so that 15 and 24 bit modes are also supported. I think it's also a bit 
> faster. I'd recommend that FreeBSD (if they want our stuff) take this 
> patch instead of the first one.
Cool. I will merge the patch and sendpr.
> 
> If people on freebsd-current have any questions or comments to this 
> stuff, they are welcome to just ask me by mail. I don't subscribe to 
> freebsd-current currently.
>
I will Cc this mail to freebsd-current. thanks a lot.
 
> Regards,
> Sascha
> 
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Sincerely,
Deng XueFeng
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