From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 1 10:20: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C47337B404 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3963D43E42 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g91HK5Co025611 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g91HK5fc025610; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200210011720.g91HK5fc025610@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Subject: Re: conf/43500: [patch] rc.syscons "allscreens" improvements Reply-To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/43500; it has been noted by GNATS. From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Dima Dorfman Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/43500: [patch] rc.syscons "allscreens" improvements Date: 01 Oct 2002 10:19:08 -0700 Dima Dorfman writes: > This seems like the wrong place to do that. Perhaps it's possible (I > haven't looked) for vidcontrol to load the module when it realizes > that it needs it, or does it not have that information? Good idea, so it handles the problem for any use of the program. Instead of hacking vidcontrol source, I'd probably move vidcontrol to /usr/libexec and replace it with a script to do the module thing, because it's easy to do and easy to undo (and more likely to be undone) if the "vesa" module is ever made auto-loadable (the best fix), but I suppose that sort of thing isn't done. Unless there's an eager C hacker ready to jump on this, I think it'd be best to just put the small tested kludge in rc.syscons and move on to more important things. (FYI, there are other video modes which require non-modular kernel support or video card support, either of which might be missing.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message