From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 6 11:51:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FB6637B61F for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:51:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenrion@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 14198986 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2000 18:51:12 -0000 Received: from r120m166.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([195.132.120.166]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Jun 2000 18:51:12 -0000 Message-ID: <393D4729.2EBED757@cybercable.fr> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 20:47:05 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: vidcontrol VESA_800x600 makes my box reboot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello everybody, i have a problem since i use freebsd, and i've been waiting to cvsup and make world a last time to mail to the mailing list. as i've made world today, i post this message ! so, i have of course a freebsd 4.0-stable system with a diamond viper 550 agp video card. it is based on nvidia tnt1 chipset. vesa support is loaded through a kernel module with vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf at boot i have this message which seems to show that there isn't any problem with vesa : VESA: v3.0, 16128k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc02ec102 (1000022) VESA: NVidia moreover, i have : options SC_PIXEL_MODE in my kernel config file. however, when i try to enable the 800x600 text mode by typing : "vidcontrol VESA_800x600", my freebsd box reboots without any message or warning in /var/log/messages. there are perhaps messages on the screen, but at least i can't see them. this is big problem for me because any user can run this command and so reboot the box. i wish to add that the disks aren't umounted properly when this happen. any help would be very appreciated ;) -Maxime Henrion To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message