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

Xin LI delphij at frontfree.net
Sun May 22 19:37:43 PDT 2005


Hi, Alexandre,

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:43:43PM -0400, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 19:26 +0800, Xin LI wrote:
[snip]
> I have observed some odd behavior when X display becomes garbled if USB
> stack is loaded and USB keyboard is attached after user has logged into
> X desktop (Gnome in my case). I am setting MODE_280 (1024x768x32) in
> rc.conf using 'allscreens_flags'.
>
> I have been playing with it a bit and found out that I can achieve the
> same result by doing 'vidcontrol MODE_280 < /dev/ttyv8 > /dev/ttyv8'
> after logging into Gnome. And ttyv8 is the terminal, occupied by X
> display. Restarting X server cures the problem.

Thanks for the feedback.  I don't have an USB keyboard at hand but I will
try if I would be able to track it down.

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