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Date:      Mon, 04 Dec 2000 09:57:15 +0200
From:      Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ATI Rage Mobility and VESA driver
Message-ID:  <3A2B4E5B.A4DEA284@cequrux.com>

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Hi all

My laptop has an ATI Rage Mobility AGP card in it. According to ATI rech
support, this card is VESA-compliant - but FreeBSD doesn't recognise it
as such.

I searched the mailing list archives, and found

> /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, line 680:
>                 if ((vmode.v_modeattr & (V_MODEOPTINFO | V_MODENONVGA))
>                     != (V_MODEOPTINFO))
>                         continue;
> 
> The v_modeattr returned by ATI VESA bios has V_MODENONVGA bit set,
> so all the vesa modes are ommited...

so I hacked this code to ignore the V_MODENONVGA flag. This was only
partially successful: I now get some VESA stuff being printed upon boot,
but still can't use any of the VESA modes.

I also found someone who has the an ATI Rage Mobility in a Dell Inspiron
laptop, who claims to have no problem with the VESA modes.

Has anyone else got such a chipset, and if so, have they had any luck
with using VESA modes with syscons?

TIA
gram
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