From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 1:42:49 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 01:42:47 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CE837B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 01:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA02672 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:42:23 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 2563; Mon Dec 4 11:41:21 2000 Sender: gram@citadel.cequrux.com Message-ID: <3A2B4E5B.A4DEA284@cequrux.com> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 09:57:15 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATI Rage Mobility and VESA driver Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message