Hi Dave and all who read with us,

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Dave Daniels wrote:
> > AFAIR 800x600 should work, but you end up with the bottom line being cut in
> > half, although I've not run 800x600 for a long long time.
>
> In normal 'console' mode under NetBSD 1.5, on my A7000+, 800 by
> 600 works but you get some rubbish at the bottom of the screen. I
> think that the bottom eight lines are affected. The only other
> issue I have found is that you have to ensure that the screen
> memory allocated is 512K or 1M otherwise all the lines are offset
> by half the width of the screen. On my RiscPC, 800 by 600 is
> unusable. All of the characters are corrupted (I am thinking about
> raising a problem report about this). Other screen modes that I
> have tried (1280 by 1024, 1024 by 768 and 640 by 480) all work
> correctly.

yeah its the same for me on my RiscPC .. the characters aren't corrupted
only stored at a non-aligned place hence the internal rotation ... if you
look closely you will see the right hand side of the characters apearing
before the left hand side of the characters :) Gives a nice effect only it
wasnt meant to be !!!!

> On the subject of screen resolution, when wscons is implemented
> for NetBSD on Acorn hardware, could it be set up so that we still
> get the screen sizes (in characters) that we do now? On a 800 by
> 600 screen, for example, the size in characters is 100 by 37.

AFAIK the font size can be choosen from a limited set of fonts including a
8x8 (i.e. Acorn default size) ... so if we use the whole screen then it
sure is posible.... I've wondered about this too when i saw the new wscons
test kernel for NetBSD/pmax ... where did my screen go?? ... i had less
than 80x24 or so ? it was wierd but nice fonts though ... oh well.. we'll
see.

Cheers,
Reinoud