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Date:      Sat, 21 Sep 2002 23:09:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        David Xu <bsddiy@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: VESA 800x600 console not working
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0209212306240.96032-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020727000118.50336.qmail@web20904.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, David Xu wrote:

> Yes, this is a known problem. I have a patch for this, you may
> download it from here:
> http://opensource.zjonline.com.cn/freebsd/vm86patch.tgz

Is there any chance of geting these committed? With them, my laptop is
happy to give a 100x37 screen on VESA_800x600.


Gavin

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob" <rob@pythonemproject.com>
> To: "Current" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 6:46 AM
>
> > Having a laptop here, I wanted to get the same 800x600 console that I
> > have in -stable.  I built my kernel with OPTIONS VESA and OPTIONS
> > SC_PIXEL_MODE.  I have tried two methods.  The first was to put 0x0080
> > in the device.hints file for SC.  That gave me a blank screen upon
> > startup.  I also tried putting into /usr/local/etc/rc.d the vidcontrol
> > command "vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600.  That gave me a blank screen
> > at the end of the bootup.  Is this functionality broken in -current, or
> > am I doing something wrong?


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