From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 23: 1:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 23:01:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (jhb-imta.mweb.co.za [196.2.48.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9984A37B400; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from wheelerz.mweb.co.za ([196.7.200.49]) by jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0G53003JS23YMW@jhb-imta.mweb.co.za>; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:00:01 +0200 (GMT-2) Received: (from gramroam@localhost) by wheelerz.mweb.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB56NY907869; Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:23:34 +0200 (SAST envelope-from gramster@mweb.co.za) Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:11:23 +0200 (SAST) From: Graham Wheeler Subject: Re: ATI Rage Mobility and VESA driver In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.0.20001204210058.00d04900@mail.drwilco.net> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200012050623.eB56NY907869@wheelerz.mweb.co.za> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >However, using vidcontrol and attempting to set any VESA modes still > >produces "operation not supported by device". > > Just checking, but do you have > > options VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE # don't change video modes Nope. But maybe I'm just expecting more modes than I can get. I can get 80x25, 80x30, 80x50 and 80x60 to work (modes 24, 30, 32, and 34 respectively). But these are the only text modes shown when I do a "vidcontrol -i mode". I can't get more than 80 columns, and the graphic screen savers won't work ("the console does not support M_VGA_CG320"). vidcontrol shows 15bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp 320x200 modes; perhaps the screen savers are 8bpp? I guess it makes sense I can't get 132 column modes, as even with an 8 pixel wide font a horizontal resolution of 1024 only makes 128 columns. "vidcontrol VESA_" fails which is why I was confused about the VESA capabilities of the ATI Rage Mobility. This includes VESA_800x600 (and yes, I do have "option SC_PIXEL_MODE" in the kernel config). regards Gram To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message