Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/16164: "vga" attach fails if video card not whacked into shape Message-ID: <200001181740.JAA03651@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/16164; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/16164: "vga" attach fails if video card not whacked into shape Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:32:22 -0500 (EST) On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > What does the HPT366 BIOS do to the screen? Does it draw some sort of > graphics? At which point does it do that? The motherboard AMI BIOS > runs POST and prints something about CPU, serial ports, parallel ports > and PnP device info before looking for a boot device. Yes, but the HPT366 BIOS runs before it prints all that info. And it puts it in some graphics mode for some reason, even though it _uses_only_color_text_! Yeesh! So, it does screw up my screen. > > >>Fix: > > > >This knocks the video card into shape, and FreeBSD works after it runs. > >This was submitted to me by W. G. Hicks, but a better place should really > >be found for it. It definitely seems to be necessary. > > This patch sets the video mode #3: 80x25 color text. It is fine > for CGA/EGA/VGA cards, but not good for MDA and Hercules mono cards. > (Well, maybe we shouldn't bother too much about monochrome video cards > nowadays, but they are still in use, I believe.) I think jhicks is working on it :) > > Kazu -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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