Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:59:20 -0400 From: Flattie McGee <flattie@globelinks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Issues with vesa + splash screen (FBSD 4.3) Message-ID: <01071008474301.03160@Pandora>
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This one's for you Kazu... (and anyone else that might know how to fix this)..
I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop (I love the warm feeling as it sits on my
lap), with FreeBSD 4.3-Stable (did a make world 3 days ago). I know that the
video card is an ATI Rage Mobility M4/32MB and works under XFree86 4.10
with KDE 2.1.1. The system doesn't reboot, or freeze upon switching of the
vty's (my resolution is set to 1400x1500).
verification from: /var/log/XFree86.0.log
(II) R128(0): Panel size: 1400x1050
(II) R128(0): VESA BIOS deteted
(II) R128(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0
(II) R128(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 32768 kB
(II) R128(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI MOBILE M4
(II) R128(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
(II) R128(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
(II) R128(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: M4
(II) R128(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00
Whats my problem? I'll get to the point and sum up my experiences, as well
as provide some answers to questions that could arise (time saver).
I've "configured" the system to load a splash screen to hide the boot
messages, but I've yet to actually see the splash screen and am forever stuck
watching the boot messages go by..
my /boot/loader.conf file contains the following:
splash_pcx_load="YES"
bitmap_load="YES"
bitmap_load=""YES"
bitmap_name="/boot/splash.pcx"
vesa_load="YES"
I have the following notices in my dmesg, followed by a few errors that I've
seen wizz by *zoom*:
Preloaded elf module "splash_pcx.ko" at 0xc03480ec.
Preloaded elf module "vesa.ko" at 0xc0348190.
Preloaded splash_image_data "/boot/beastie_nebula.pcx" at 0xc034822c.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, c0336d08, 0) error 6
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (splash_pcx, c03316a8, 0) error 19
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
I've tried using a bmp file (and configuration settings necessary to make
that work), but the same errors occured. I've also disabled the loading of
the vesa module, which resulted in pretty much nothing productive. I've gone
as far as to compile VESA into the kernel, but that resulted in a kernel
panic with the following error msg:
panic: vm86_addpage not enough room, or overlap
I can't recall if I tried to disable the loading of the splash screens with
the VESA option enabled in the kernel..
I've not bothered to try to use the VM86 option in the kernel, as I know this
option is outdated and would most likly break the kernel build process
(speculation). I havn't tried the other options which were listed in vga(4)
as I saw no use for them.. (also because I cvsuped a while ago, and the
pccard sources were borked, which prevented me from doing further tests).. As
a side note, the examples in vga(4) are also dated.
device vga0 at isa? port ? conflicts
has been replaced with:
device vga0 at isa?
I'm a bit clued out when it comes to the results of "vidcontrol", but here
they are anyways.
mode# flags type size font window linear buffer
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
Thanks !!
FM/Z
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