From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 1 6:15:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E953B37B417 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 06:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01909; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:15:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g21EFJu70706; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:15:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15487.36087.212483.935915@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:15:19 -0500 (EST) To: "Andrew M. Miklic" Cc: Subject: Re: TGA driver available... In-Reply-To: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3> References: <000701c1c129$fa0bc5e0$32aea9ac@c109118a3> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew M. Miklic writes: > All, > > A new, corrected TGA kernel is available for testing. This kernel is > for TGA devices _only_, so it will not boot on VGA as console for systems > with only VGA, and for systems with both TGA and VGA, it will boot on TGA as > console. > > A word of note: if you are going to use a "small" monitor (17'' or less) > or a monitor only capable of refresh rates less than 80Hz and the monitor > does not sync during boot of the kernel listed below, please set the TGA > card to the lowest resolution (640x480) and retry... > > The driver can be found here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/tgaonly.gz Its a GENERIC 5.0-current kernel with the TGA driver in place of the VGA driver, actually ;) BTW, if you test this, please set your console to "graphics" and make sure you have a keyboard plugged in. We're interested in hearing if you can boot to single user mode & use the TGA card as a graphics console. I've compiled in hints, so you should be able to drop this kernel in the root fs of a 4.x machine, and boot it rather than your 4.x kernel. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message