[CALL FOR TESTERS] VESA High Resolution Console support from DragonFly

[Xin LI]

Dear -CURRENT users,

I would like to solicit a test of the following patchset which is based
on DragonFly's changes, against -CURRENT, to bring high resolution console
support to FreeBSD.  The current patchset can be considered as "BETA" and
I would commit it if there is no complain about this patchset in the next
week.

The patchset can be found at:
	http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa/patchset-highres.20050522

To use it, you will need latest -CURRENT code, and apply the patchset at
toplevel source tree, i.e. /usr/src for usual cases.  Then you need to build
and reinstall your kernel, with 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE' compiled in, and
optionally options VESA if you don't want to manually load VESA support
module.  A make buildworld/installworld is recommended, but I believe that
just rebuild/reinstall usr.sbin/vidcontrol is enough to get your hands on
the support for using something like 'vidcontrol MODE_239' or so, which will
switch the current console to that mode.  Some mode may not work on certain
cards, though.

Please let me know if anything strange happens;  While I have been running
with the patch for a while, I would still be happy if you will report that
it works :-)

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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