From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 30 11:54:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18318 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:54:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18311 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:54:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01641; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810301954.LAA01641@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alfred Perlstein cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if anyone is interested VESA seems broken. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:51:22 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:54:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I recently enabled "options USER_LDT" in my kernel to test some things > out. I also enabled VESA and VM86 (figured if i was gonna reboot...) > > Well vidcontrol seems only able to set a very small subset of modes > that seem available to my machine (from boot -v and vidcontrol -i mode) > > Modes that I could get to work: 80x25, 132x25, VESA_800x600 no more :( Which other ones did you try? There should probably be an option to set explicitly based on the mode number, but I haven't seen anything that doesn't work as expected. > Another odd thing with VESA, if you notice how it seems the top of my > dmesg it gone? Well right about there at bootup my screen goes blank for > a split second and again either a second before or after the cut part. > (This happens twice while probing VESA it seems) The top of your dmesg output is probably missing because the kernel message buffer is too small. The screen blank is normal (video reset). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message