Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:13:53 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: "pan" <pan@syix.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need VESA video help Message-ID: <010d01c0db30$d85cafc0$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <200105121620.QAA19931033@smtp7ve.mailsrvcs.net> <006a01c0db0e$ac574740$2813933f@cat>
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Are you saying that the S3 Virge actually worked properly in X ?? If so I'd appreciate knowing what setup / config you used for it. I've never had much joy with the things but I figure they really should work with 16 bit / 800 x 600 at least ----- Original Message ----- From: "pan" <pan@syix.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 4:09 AM Subject: Re: Need VESA video help > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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