Re: kern/71142; VESA 1024x768 @ the console
From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 01/25/05
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:42:47 -0600 To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
I got tired of having to patch by hand all the systems I wanted this
patch on and all the systems I patched but then updated with cvsup so I
made a simple batch script to do it for me, this script will do steps
1...9 (see below). all you have to do is paste it into a file and then
run it as root (i.e. "sh vesa-patch-script"):
cd /tmp
rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
rm -r current-vesa_patch
tar -zxvf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons
patch </tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol
cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1
cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c
make && make install && make clean
Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Disclaimer!!!: please note that this patch was never meant for newbies
> and that if you decide to use it you are basically on your own if you
> have any problems with it. This patch is very much still in alpha
> status, but it does work and if It breaks your system you can always
> back it out.
>
>> 1. do I copy the patch exactly as is from the webpage?
>>
>>
> no, forget the patches from the webpage it's all messed up and you
> have to run it though scripts and edit it and stuff etc etc....
> -----------------------------
> Step 0: su to root.
> Step 1: cd into /tmp
> Step 2: fetch the patch: "fetch
> http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz"
>
> Alternate Source (these patches are from Deng XueFeng BTW):
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-08/att-2992/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz
>
>
> Step 3: Extract the files from the archive: "tar -zxvf curr*gz"
> Step 4: cd into /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons
> Step 5: patch the files: "patch
> </tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff" (make sure this applies
> cleanly, no error messages!)
> Step 6: cd into /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol (usr.sbin is not a typo)
> Step 7: Copy the file current-vidcontrol.1 here: "cp
> /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1"
> Step 8: Copy the file current-vidcontrol.c here: "cp
> /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c"
> Step 9: while your in there rebuild vidcontrol: "make && make install
> && make clean"
> Step 10: cd into /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> (if you have never done this before then your kernel will be
> "GENERIC", if you have then you don't need me to explain what to do)
> Step 11: Add the kernel option for VESA support to your kernel: echo
> "options VESA" >> GENERIC
> Step 12: Add the kernel option for SC_PIXEL_MODE to your kernel: echo
> "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" >> GENERIC
> Step 13: config your kernel: config GENERIC
> Step 14: cd into ../compile/GENERIC
> Step 15: rebuild your kernel: "make depend && make && make install"
> Step 16: reboot
> (After FreeBSD reboots and loads you will see this message several
> times (ignore it) "vidcontrol: showing the mouse: Invalid argument")
> Step 17: login as root
> Step 18: Now change the video mode "vidcontrol MODE_279"
> (you should now have a console at 1024x768, if you don't you did
> something wrong.)
> Step 19: If everthing seems ok then add it to the /etc/rc.conf file:
> allscreens_flags="MODE_279"
> Step 20: reboot or do a "shutdown now"
> Step 21: login as a normal user, you're done, have fun :-), report any
> bugs your having to I think ether freebsd-current or freebsd-hackers
> mailing lists.
>
> you can also use "vidcontrol -i mode | grep G" to see a complete list
> of supported modes (this is a list of modes supported by your video
> card, not your monitor!) and if you want you can play with these other
> modes "vidcontrol MODE_modenumber"
>
> Also note that if you try to update your sources with cvsup it will
> overwrite the changes you made to the files so you will have to redo
> steps 0 though 8 again (this is how you can back out the changes if
> you have problems with it).
>
>
>
>
>
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