From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 11: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lynx.syix.com (lynx.syix.com [205.171.72.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A489F37B424 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 11:09:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pan@syix.com) Received: from cat ([63.147.19.40]) by lynx.syix.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f4CI9Mk29683 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 11:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pan@syix.com) Message-ID: <006a01c0db0e$ac574740$2813933f@cat> From: "pan" To: References: <200105121620.QAA19931033@smtp7ve.mailsrvcs.net> Subject: Re: Need VESA video help Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 11:09:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Skip" > 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