Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:11:23 +0200 (SAST) From: Graham Wheeler <gramster@mweb.co.za> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI Rage Mobility and VESA driver Message-ID: <200012050623.eB56NY907869@wheelerz.mweb.co.za> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20001204210058.00d04900@mail.drwilco.net>
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> >However, using vidcontrol and attempting to set any VESA modes still
> >produces "operation not supported by device".
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> Just checking, but do you have
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> options VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE # don't change video modes
Nope. But maybe I'm just expecting more modes than I can get. I can
get 80x25, 80x30, 80x50 and 80x60 to work (modes 24, 30, 32, and 34
respectively). But these are the only text modes shown when I do a
"vidcontrol -i mode". I can't get more than 80 columns, and the graphic
screen savers won't work ("the console does not support M_VGA_CG320").
vidcontrol shows 15bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp 320x200 modes; perhaps
the screen savers are 8bpp?
I guess it makes sense I can't get 132 column modes, as even with an 8
pixel wide font a horizontal resolution of 1024 only makes 128 columns.
"vidcontrol VESA_<anything>" fails which is why I was confused about the
VESA capabilities of the ATI Rage Mobility. This includes VESA_800x600
(and yes, I do have "option SC_PIXEL_MODE" in the kernel config).
regards
Gram
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