Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:41:09 +0100 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: framebuffers? Message-ID: <200401241041.10164.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <20040123225329.GC8376@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> <200401232316.49898.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> <20040123225329.GC8376@dan.emsphone.com>
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Ok, I wasn't aware of this difference, thanks. I put "options VESA" in my kernel config, as I already mentioned in my first post. When I search through dmesg, I read this: > VESA: v2.0, 8192k memory, flags:0x0, mode table:0xc0378382 (1000022) > VESA: S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS But the last two lines read: > module_register: module vesa already exists! > linker_file_sysinit "vesa.ko" failed to register! 17 Btw, it's a laptop (Toshiba), the graphic card is S3 Savage/IX-MV. GH > Linux actually goes into a graphics mode and blits the characters onto > the screen, which is slow but works with any card that has a graphics > mode. FreeBSD stays in text mode, which gets you a much faster console > but requires video card support. "Cordula's Web" mentioned that you > need kernel support for this; make sure you have "options VESA" in your > kernel config file, or have loaded the vesa kernel module. -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail
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