From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 15:14:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D892937B424 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 15:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.142.177]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA34782; Sun, 13 May 2001 08:12:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <010d01c0db30$d85cafc0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "pan" , References: <200105121620.QAA19931033@smtp7ve.mailsrvcs.net> <006a01c0db0e$ac574740$2813933f@cat> Subject: Re: Need VESA video help Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:13:53 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you saying that the S3 Virge actually worked properly in X ?? If so I'd appreciate knowing what setup / config you used for it. I've never had much joy with the things but I figure they really should work with 16 bit / 800 x 600 at least ----- Original Message ----- From: "pan" To: Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 4:09 AM Subject: Re: Need VESA video help > > From: "Skip" > > > I installed 4.2-RELEASE a few days ago and managed to get everything > > working, except changing to a decent video mode. I built a kernel with > > option VESA. But whenever I try to change to any VESA mode, I get > > 'Operation not supported by device.' > > > > I can change to many other modes but none of the VESA_132x modes. I > > have the 3 fonts loaded in rc.conf, and have also loaded them from the > > command line. > > > > Just went through that -- the video chip was manufactured with a cutdown > VESA bios extension -- max supported mode in text was 80x25. In > particular it was an ATI rage pro turbo based 8mB agp card. > > Solution was to rip the agp card out - dig out an ancient virge S3 > plain vanilla vga card, insert and then vidcontrol got me everything > I asked for. > > I guess text mode users are supposed to wither away if they don't > follow the yellow brick xwindows road. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message