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From: "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl>
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>> Andreas Davour wrote:
>>
>>> I just tried to compile my kernel with 'options VESA' and 'device=20
>>> vga', according to the instructions from 'man 4 vga'.
>>>=20
>>> When I did it with 6.2 it worked, but now 'make buildkernel' tells
me=20
>>> VESA is an unrecognized option. How come?
>>
>> I built a kernel with that for 6.3-RELEASE and it works just fine.=20
>> 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=20
>> resolution with vidcontrol and the screensavers don't work either.
>>
>> Perhaps you can send me your kernel config file?

>Sure, here it is (it is a bit verbose, since I have not deleted stuff):

># UPHEAVAL kernconf, based on GENERIC 6.2

>machine		amd64
>cpu		HAMMER
>ident		UPHEAVAL

....snip

You are using amd64 now, there is no option VESA support for amd64.

Regards,
Johan Hendriks