From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 14:04:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00616 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00486 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA12441; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:24:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Snob Art Genre cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video mode switching only partially supported In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote: > I'm curious about this message from my kernel. The full dmesg output is > below. My syscons stuff is straight out of GENERIC. > > 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> What brand of video card do you have? Aparently sc0 doesn't think that it can access all the possible video modes for vidcontrol(8). > FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE #0: Mon Feb 16 16:24:34 EST 1998 Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message