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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:34:08 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r198858 - in head/sys: dev/fb dev/syscons sys
Message-ID:  <20100127093408.GA16869@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201001261417.06116.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200911032022.nA3KM96H003434@svn.freebsd.org> <86aaw0kjko.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100126153027.GA65470@FreeBSD.org> <201001261417.06116.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 January 2010 10:30 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > I understand; I was thinking if maybe there are some "hackish" or
> > indirect way to tell that BIOS is lying.
> 
> Probably you mean something like the attached patch?   Basically, with 
> this patch, we ignore the VGA compatibility flag if the DAC mode is 
> higher than 6-bit.  Let me know if it works for you.

Yup, this patch also works.  It is kinda funny to observe the big creepy
ASCII-artish beastie floating around darker screen (looks like shifted
palette thing again) after *unloading* vesa.ko and then invoking logo
screensaver.  :-)

./danfe



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