Re: kern/71142; VESA 1024x768 @ the console
From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu (itetcu_at_people.tecnik93.com)
Date: 01/26/05
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:13:30 +0200 To: Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com>
[ newbies really isn't the place for this discussion ]
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:42:41 -0800 (PST)
Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> wrote:
>
> > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> >
> > >On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:42:47 -0600
> > >Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>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"):
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Care to make it a port ? O should I do it for you
> > put you as maintainer
> > >or me if you don't have the time to spare ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Make what a port, you mean that hack I called a
> > script? lol, I guess it
> > could be, never made a port b4, but it would have to
> > be redone as I'd
> > never sign my name to it. It has no error control
> > except for a cascading
> > failure if the patch doesn't download or untar and
> > it should include the
> > patch to fix the mouse error. I think a better idea
> > might be to redo it
> > into a real script and post it to the PR?:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71142
[ ... ]
> This would be a good addition for persons who do
> FreeBSD mobile.
>From what I see the PR has a responsible (delphij@, cc'ed) which makes
me believe it would be merged into the tree eventually. Now as I didn't
follow the discussion from the beginning does anyone know about a time
frame for that ? The port is easy / not time consumming to do but
maintaining it in the long run isn't so I would like to know if it will
be merged in the near future.
> Or perhaps there should be an entire
> port for mobile FreeBSD, for persons who want
> applications and are using mobile computers... So it
> would include everything from the Vesa hack to say
> battery monitors and perhaps a little how to on how to
> tweak freebsd for laptops :)
You're welcome to do it :)
There are several battery monitors or applets for kde and gnome and a
"profiler" for different environments .
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