From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 01:39:45 2004 Return-Path: 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 AB7EC16A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from lori.mine.nu (123.0-200-80.adsl.skynet.be [80.200.0.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9CB43D48 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:39:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be) Received: from lori.mine.nu (unknown [192.168.1.210]) by lori.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53FA1456A; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:41:21 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Hendrickx To: Dan Nelson Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:41:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401231659.46198.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> <200401232316.49898.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> <20040123225329.GC8376@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040123225329.GC8376@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401241041.10164.geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: framebuffers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:39:45 -0000 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