From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 21:12:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938A716A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:12:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from infidel.fajita.org (oldhallfarm.demon.co.uk [80.176.128.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F49143D45 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:12:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: from majic.fajita.org (majic.fajita.org [192.168.0.4]) by infidel.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i88LDKLv048361 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:13:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by majic.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i88LDKWZ048360 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:13:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:13:20 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20040908211320.GA47384@fajita.org> References: <20040908183714.GA43489@fajita.org> <20040908205923.GA1320@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040908205923.GA1320@moo.holy.cow> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lewiz@fajita.org Subject: Re: VESA_800x600 (age old question) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:12:34 -0000 --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:59:23PM -0400, Parv wrote: > in message <20040908183714.GA43489@fajita.org>, wrote Lewis Thompson > thusly... > > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Operation not supported by device > > > > Can somebody please tell me what this means? >=20 > All that means is the card does not have proper/complete VESA > implementation. IOW, get a card w/ proper/complete VESA > implementation? Aha! So while it does have a VESA BIOS it's just not complete. Presumably the vesa code uses some of the less common features to achieve what it does? In a word, it's doesn't work and it's not going to without some really radical changes to the vesa code? Can you confirm/refute this? I'd love to switch the card... unfortunately this is a laptop and I really don't fancy soldering it; might void my Sony warranty ;) -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBP3XvItq0KFQv7T8RAuHFAKDdIxy9lhkY7qkpPqJNMPhMJAex2wCgwdGe k7jSeejTLf9wIE33AJCuqh4= =XoRi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--