From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 10 17:49:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A247154C7 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 17:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00154; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:49:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199910110049.UAA00154@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19991010234532.A17491@supra.rotterdam.luna.net> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:49:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Ruben van Staveren Subject: RE: splash/AGP card weirdness ? Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Oct-99 Ruben van Staveren wrote: > 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. The VESA BIOS for the AGP card may require a software driver to fully enable the VESA graphics modes. If so, you aren't going to be able to use them for splash screens. > b. it is an AGP/splash `compatibility' problem. Nope, my AGP Matrox G200 works great. > Clues anyone ? > > Regards, > Ruben > > p.s. > the other weird thing is that I was even unable to change the > console > to e.g. 80x60 with vidcontrol :P You need to load the 8x16 fonts for this to work. Check the vidcontrol(1) and rc.conf(5) man pages. --- John Baldwin -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message