From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 18:36:26 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 4DBFA16A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:36:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from infidel.fajita.org (oldhallfarm.demon.co.uk [80.176.128.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E350243D49 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:36:24 +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 i88IbFLv044340 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:37:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by majic.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i88IbE0C044339 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:37:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:37:14 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20040908183714.GA43489@fajita.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline 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: 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 18:36:26 -0000 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, This question has been rehashed many times, so I apologise. I've got VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE in my kernel and I want to be able to do: vidcontrol VESA_800x600. However, when I do this I receive the following message: vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Operation not supported by device The general answer to this seems to be make sure SC_PIXEL_MODE is in your kernel. It is. This is an Intel 855GM/GME Montara (I use i810 for x.org). I don't know if it means anything but in the Xorg.log file I am told that a VESA BIOS is detected: (II) I810(0): VESA BIOS detected Can somebody please tell me what this means? Somebody seemed to think that the error means that the card doesn't have a VESA BIOS but this doesn't seem to be the case. Is VESA_800x600 just not supported on the 855GM? Thanks and apologies... this topic is getting boring now ;) -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 |- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBP1FaItq0KFQv7T8RAm/CAKCMszu7LN2UX9eYpRa1Q+TuLaVTXwCaAoXq cGDQuUalVkp+oTgdatIXClY= =7+0s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--