Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:15:19 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@attglobal.net> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: TGA driver available... Message-ID: <15487.36087.212483.935915@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3> References: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3>
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Andrew M. Miklic writes: > All, > > A new, corrected TGA kernel is available for testing. This kernel is > for TGA devices _only_, so it will not boot on VGA as console for systems > with only VGA, and for systems with both TGA and VGA, it will boot on TGA as > console. > > A word of note: if you are going to use a "small" monitor (17'' or less) > or a monitor only capable of refresh rates less than 80Hz and the monitor > does not sync during boot of the kernel listed below, please set the TGA > card to the lowest resolution (640x480) and retry... > > The driver can be found here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/tgaonly.gz Its a GENERIC 5.0-current kernel with the TGA driver in place of the VGA driver, actually ;) BTW, if you test this, please set your console to "graphics" and make sure you have a keyboard plugged in. We're interested in hearing if you can boot to single user mode & use the TGA card as a graphics console. I've compiled in hints, so you should be able to drop this kernel in the root fs of a 4.x machine, and boot it rather than your 4.x kernel. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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