Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:56:43 -0700 From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> To: Muthu_T@Dell.com Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Normal Booting on Dell PE3250 Message-ID: <40A29D9B.3030708@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA14DB399@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com> References: <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA14DB399@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com>
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On 5/12/2004 2:36 AM, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: >>There's no VGA console support by default. > > My dmesg shows the following output. > <snip> > pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 > pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 > pci1: <display, VGA> at device 1.0 (no driver attached) > </snip> > > What is the issue to enable the VGA console in IA64 build? As Marcel said, it's disabled by default, but you can get it working on the E8770 chipset machines by compiling a custom kernel with the following line: device sc Also, see the instructions on enabling the USB keyboard I posted earlier. Eventually, the console driver will be modified to support non-legacy ia64 boxes. -Arun
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