From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 10:26:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3369E37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB0043E42 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (727dc58f519769c7740d9a7a96d2242a@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6OHRB2e063967; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6OHRBTA063966; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:27:11 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Stephan de Bot Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Vidcontrol and IPFW messages Message-ID: <20020724172711.GT94707@vectors.cx> References: <20020724090917.GN7060@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724090917.GN7060@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> (07.24.2002 @ 0209 PST): Roman Neuhauser said, in 1.0K: << > > From: Stephan de Bot > > To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" > > Subject: Vidcontrol and IPFW messages > > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:21:51 +0200 > > > > Hi, > > 1) I've tried to set my console to vidcontrol 132x43 but it says: > > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: inappropriate ioctl for device I've > > compiled the kernel with options VESA What do I do wrong? > > no idea. first of all, you need 3 kernel options to make this viable: options VESA options VGA_WIDTH90 options SC_PIXEL_MODE second of all, even that is not guaranteed to work. i was horrified to find out that my new laptop with a 64mb ati radeon 7500 wasn't vesa compliant. try putting in those options, and test all 3 of them at once with: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 if it doesn't work, either go to -current, make do, or buy a new card. vesa compliancy is a sticky issue. -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message