[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: high resolution textmode?



On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 15:33, Carlos Enriqe Carleos Artime wrote:
> 
> Congratulations to all the Hurd team. For a Linux-based Debian user,
> transition is quite smooth, more than expected at least.
> 
> Ok. I don't mind I cannot use X in the K2 series. Anyway, I've never
> been able to run X properly in GNU/Hurd.  But I would like to know
> whether there is any way of getting a high resolution console to work
> with.  I mean, after using SVGATextMode and Framebuffer in GNU/Linux
> and FreeBSD, I just can't stand 80x25 text modes.  Is there anything
> similar to Linux' "vga=0x317" option?

 You can use the Hurd console.  Marcus wrote up a good way to
get it set up in this email:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-09/msg00121.html



 
> By the way, I assume SVGAlib is not yet working, is it?
> 
> Thanks for your work. All the best.
> 
> 
> 	carleos

 Have fun.

Jim




Reply to: