From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 10 15:23: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles509.castles.com [208.214.165.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C09E014F3D for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 15:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08194; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 15:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910102215.PAA08194@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ruben van Staveren Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash/AGP card weirdness ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:45:32 +0200." <19991010234532.A17491@supra.rotterdam.luna.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 15:15:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > = > It can mean two things: > a. the FireGL does not have a VESA compliant bios (or none at all) > and that is strange as a friend of mine got his PCI (???) FireGL > card working with the splash boot screen. You need to send us the output of 'vidcontrol -i mode' on the system = that's actually having problems, not some other random machine (what = use is _that_?). = Note that a lot of cards these days don't have decent VESA support = anymore. I can recommend the 3dFX Voodoo3 cards; some excerpts from = the mode table: 259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 276 (0x114) 0x0000000f G 800x600x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 277 (0x115) 0x0000000f G 800x600x24 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 261 (0x105) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 279 (0x117) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 280 (0x118) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x24 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 263 (0x107) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 282 (0x11a) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k 283 (0x11b) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x24 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe0000000= 16384k > b. it is an AGP/splash `compatibility' problem. No such thing. Check your dmesg output for something like this: VESA: v3.0, 16384k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc02b1cb7 (1000117) VESA: 3dfx Interactive, Inc. If it's not there, you don't have a VESA BIOS and you are stuck with a = very limited set of video modes for your splash image. If this upsets = you, go complain to your video card vendor. -- = \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message