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
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