Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:28:50 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, delphij@delphij.net Cc: Popov Maxim <popov.max@gmail.com> Subject: Re: options VESA --> where is it ? Message-ID: <200511300828.51685.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <a78074950511300450m6e497389jbab35ab25169c6a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <4bdd3edf0511300019u1138a137g@mail.gmail.com> <a78074950511300450m6e497389jbab35ab25169c6a1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 30 November 2005 07:50 am, Xin LI wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/30/05, Popov Maxim <popov.max@gmail.com> wrote: > > In my kernel configuration i wrote this: options VESA (to get a high > > resolution in the console). In the i386 version of the FreeBSD it > > worked, but know it says: > > VESA: no such option (or something like that). > > Currently VESA is not available for amd64 kernels... I think you may > want to do some small hacking to forcely add it, but I am not sure > whether it works well that way... VESA needs to talk to the BIOS of the video card. On i386, we use vm86 mod= e=20 to execute the VESA BIOS code, but on amd64's long mode, there is no vm86=20 mode, so we have now way to talk to the VESA BIOS on amd64. =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =A0=3D =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org
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