From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 15 10:59:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18696 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:59:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles334.castles.com [208.214.167.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18691 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00964; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:57:09 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808151057.KAA00964@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andreas Dobloug cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video mode switching is only partially supported In-reply-to: Your message of "15 Aug 1998 11:20:18 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:57:08 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm currently using FreeBSD 2.2CAM-19980716-SNAP > > I get these lines when booting: > > Probing for devices on the ISA bus: > sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard > sc0: WARNING: video mode switching is only partially supported > sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> > > my display card is a "Hercules Dynamite 3D/GL 8MB AGP". > How does the syscons determine whether or not a display-card supports > switching? You've booted in a nonstandard video mode. There may be a BIOS option to select whether the spiffy graphics mode that the BIOS uses for it's logo is retained for bootroms, or whether it should switch to a standard mode. Pick the latter. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message