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From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: bin/4477: vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text
	 console 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4477; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: root@nt5.ipi.kiev.ua
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: bin/4477: vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text
	 console 
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:36:51 +0900

 >>Number:         4477
 >>Category:       bin
 >>Synopsis:       vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text console
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep  6 12:20:01 PDT 1997
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Charlie &
 >>Organization:
 >SPLINE JV, Kiev
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970901-RELENG i386
 >>Environment:
 >
 >	Pentium 100 / RAM 64M / 2xIDE HDDs / S3 Trio64 videocard / b/w SVGA mon
 >itor
 >
 >>Description:
 >
 >	vidcontrol refuses to set any VGA/EGA videomode different
 >	from default 8x25 one.
 
 This happens depending on the installed video card.  It is annoying
 but necessary restriction in the syscons driver.
 
 Syscons does not let the user to change video mode (via vidcontrol) if
 the video mode parameter table in the video BIOS is not organized the
 way syscons expects.  The table is checked during syscons'
 initialization.
 
 Syscons needs the table to find correct set of parameters to change
 the video mode of the given video card.  Some video card manufactures
 somehow decided to write the parameter table in a way different from
 the IBM's original VGA BIOS.  Its BIOS knows how the table is ordered,
 but syscons cannot...
 
 What brand of video cards are you using?
 
 Kazu