From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 13:51:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9882616A417 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb7:ef56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A22313C461 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:51:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (wlan141116.mobiel.utwente.nl [130.89.141.116]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m17Dp6nt013180; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:51:08 +0100 Message-ID: <47AB0CCB.9030000@student.utwente.nl> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:51:07 +0000 From: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Davour References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VESA option in 6.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:51:19 -0000 Andreas Davour wrote: > I just tried to compile my kernel with 'options VESA' and 'device vga', > according to the instructions from 'man 4 vga'. > > When I did it with 6.2 it worked, but now 'make buildkernel' tells me > VESA is an unrecognized option. How come? I built a kernel with that for 6.3-RELEASE and it works just fine. That is to say, the kernel builds, installs, boots and runs. But VESA itself is another story because I still can't change the syscons resolution with vidcontrol and the screensavers don't work either. Perhaps you can send me your kernel config file? Alphons -- VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware