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Date:      Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:33:58 -0400
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem changing to VESA mode with vidcontrol under 4.6-RC
Message-ID:  <20020615143358.GB4152@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020615141814.GA4152@laptop.lambertfam.org>
References:  <20020615145943.A5513@arlette.epita.fr> <20020615141814.GA4152@laptop.lambertfam.org>

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On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:18:14AM -0400, Scott Lambert wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:59:43PM +0200, jeremie le-hen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this problem might surely be easy to solve, but i'm not a VESA master
> > and i didn't succeed in resolving it:
> >
> > With 4.5 release, "vidcontrol VESA_132x60" was working perfectly, but
> > i upgraded to 4.6-RC and i upgraded my bios in the same time... :/ I
> > know it's not a very good idea, but now it's done, and i cannot come
> > back. But now, I cannot use any VESA mode any longer. In my opinion,
> > FreeBSD is not culprit, but i wonder if someone have any idea to help
> > me, maybe a diagnostic tool i don't know, ...
> >
> 
> I think you are confusing the options to vidcontrol.  Did you try:
> allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" 

Nevermind.  Note to self "Just because you don't use an option, doesn't
mean it doesn't exist."

Just to make sure:
Do you have "options vesa" compiled into the kernel, or, the vesa.ko
module loaded?

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org      

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