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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:38:55 -0700
From: Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net>
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Would anyone know where to find a list of cards that have the VBE's
on-chip?

Thx!

Emmanuel

Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:31:48PM -0700, carl wrote:
> > I recently tried to get a 800x600 resolution console. As i read in the
> > manual page for vidcontrol i put in the SC_PIXEL_MODE options in my kernel,
> > i then config'd,installed, and reboted. The manual page then said to do
> > " vidcontrol VESA_800x600 " ..after doing this command i got an error msg
> > stating
> > it could not raster device, operation not supported by device.  I have a
> > stb nvidae velocity 128 agp card, in xwin my resolution is just fine at
> > 1024x768 so i know it isnt a hardware problem.
> 
> Oh yes it is. Well not exactly a *problem*. In order to run VESA modes
> on the *console* your card needs the VBE (VESA BIOS Extensions) to be
> on-chip. ATI cards don't have this, you have to run a DOS TSR program
> which of cause you can't do under FreeBSD. Running 1024x768 in X is a
> different matter altogether.
> 
> I too have an ATI card (Xpert@Work) and have the same "problem".
> 
> HTH
> 
> > please email back, thank
> > you a ton!!!!!
> >
> > Carl


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