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Author SHA1 Message Date
yokota
b326a281a9 Fix and update for VESA BIOS support in syscons.
- Handle pixel (raster text) mode properly.
   - Clear screen and paint border right.
   - Paint text attribute (colors).
   - Fix off-by-one errors.
   - Add some sanity checks.
- Fix some function prototypes.
- Add some comment lines.
- Define generic text mode numbers so that the user can just give
  "80x25", "80x60", "132x25"..., rather than "VGA_xxx", to `vidcontrol'
  to change the current video mode.  `vidoio.c' and `vesa.c' will map
  these numbers to real video mode numbers appropriate and available
  with the given video hardware.  I believe this will be useful to make
  syscons more portable across archtectures.
1998-09-23 09:59:00 +00:00
sos
653c2af6ae Add VESA support to syscons.
Kazu writes:

The VESA support code requires vm86 support. Make sure your kernel
configuration file has the following line.
        options "VM86"
If you want to statically link the VESA support code to the kernel,
add the following option to the kernel configuration file.
        options "VESA"

The vidcontrol command now accepts the following video mode names:
VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, VESA_132x60, VESA_800x600

The VESA_800x600 mode is a raster display mode. The 80x25 text will
be displayed on the 800x600 screen. Useful for some laptop computers.

vidcontrol accepts the new `-i <info>' option, where <info> must be
either `adapter' or `mode'.  When the `-i adapter' option is given,
vidcontrol will print basic information (not much) on the video
adapter. When the `-i mode' option is specified, vidcontrol will
list video modes which are actually supported by the video adapter.

Submitted by:   Kazutaka YOKOTA yokota@FreeBSD.ORG
1998-09-15 18:16:39 +00:00