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Subject: Re: kern/144654: [vesa] VESA support broken on FreeBSD 8.0 Stable
	[regression]
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On Tuesday 16 March 2010 06:40 pm, barbara wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 01:16 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Monday 15 March 2010 08:19 pm, barbara wrote:
> > > > > On Monday 15 March 2010 02:41 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > > > > > Can you please try the attached patch?
> > > > >
> > > > > Oops, it attached a wrong patch.  Please try this instead.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry for the inconvenience,
> > > > >
> > > > > Jung-uk Kim
> > > >
> > > > I had the same problem on RELENG_8 since yesterday (prev.
> > > > buildworld on Feb. 28). I've tried rebuilding the kernel with
> > > > your patch but no luck.
> > >
> > > Your problem may be different.  Different VESA BIOS has
> > > different quirks.  Your BIOS actually sets non-VGA compatible
> > > bits correctly. However, there is no standard VGA graphic mode
> > > at all, which is pretty strange.  What's your graphics card?
> > >
> > > > I had to comment the 'allscreens_flags="MODE_280"' line in
> > > > my /etc/rc.conf as the monitor was going black with 'NO
> > > > SIGNAL' on OSD. You asked to the OP if the box is pingable. I
> > > > think that you want to know if the kernel is still alive, am
> > > > I right? I can "blindly" login and reboot the pc while the
> > > > screen is black.
> > >
> > > So, it is not rendering anything on screen.  Hmm...  Can you
> > > please try the attached patch?
> >
> > Please send me your kernel configuration as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JK
>
> I've attached my KERNCONF.
> AFAICR, I'm using this kind of configuration for vesa since FreeBSD
> 5.x and vidcontrol with MODE_ since when it was ported from
> DragonflyBSD.
>
> I've added
>     device          dpms
>     options         X86BIOS
> just after running csup last time, as in
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES there is a comment stating that
> X86BIOS is required by vesa. I'm not sure if that is correct.

Yes, it looks okay.  Thanks.

Jung-uk Kim