Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 11:09:23 -0700 From: "pan" <pan@syix.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need VESA video help Message-ID: <006a01c0db0e$ac574740$2813933f@cat> References: <200105121620.QAA19931033@smtp7ve.mailsrvcs.net>
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From: "Skip" <vze2j9fk@verizon.net> > I installed 4.2-RELEASE a few days ago and managed to get everything > working, except changing to a decent video mode. I built a kernel with > option VESA. But whenever I try to change to any VESA mode, I get > 'Operation not supported by device.' > > I can change to many other modes but none of the VESA_132x modes. I > have the 3 fonts loaded in rc.conf, and have also loaded them from the > command line. > Just went through that -- the video chip was manufactured with a cutdown VESA bios extension -- max supported mode in text was 80x25. In particular it was an ATI rage pro turbo based 8mB agp card. Solution was to rip the agp card out - dig out an ancient virge S3 plain vanilla vga card, insert and then vidcontrol got me everything I asked for. I guess text mode users are supposed to wither away if they don't follow the yellow brick xwindows road. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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