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From: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD must consider shipping with SC_PIXEL_MODE on (possibility of > 80x25 resolution)
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>Number:         160692
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD must consider shipping with SC_PIXEL_MODE on (possibility of > 80x25 resolution)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          feedback
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>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 13 03:10:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 15 01:50:57 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Wojciech A. Koszek
>Release:        9.0-BETA2
>Organization:
FreeBSD Project
>Environment:
9.0-BETA2/i386 from the latest test release
>Description:
In my private opinion we should seriously consider enabling SC_PIXEL_MODE by default in FreeBSD or, in the worst case, making it a tunable.

Not being able to see 'ps axuw' (on 80x25 console) is inconvenient.

For test setups / working in VirtualBox/VMWare VMs, it would be beneficial
to be able to increase the resolution just a bit to get something functional.

In the ideal case I could get a system where vidcontrol(8) can change a graphics modes.
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From: h h <aakuusta@gmail.com>
To: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/160692: FreeBSD must consider shipping with SC_PIXEL_MODE on (possibility of > 80x25 resolution)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:23:51 +0400

 "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@FreeBSD.org> writes:
 
 >>Description:
 > In my private opinion we should seriously consider enabling
 > SC_PIXEL_MODE by default in FreeBSD or, in the worst case, making it a
 > tunable.
 
 Can you be more specific? It's in GENERIC since r221743 (2011-05-10).
 
   $ fgrep -i pixel /usr/src/sys/{i386,amd64}/conf/GENERIC
   /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:options        SC_PIXEL_MODE   # add support for the raster text mode
   /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC:options       SC_PIXEL_MODE   # add support for the raster text mode
 
 And more graphic modes are available after kldload'ing vesa.ko.
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: eadler 
State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 15 01:50:56 UTC 2011 
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feedback requested 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160692 
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