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From: mv <mrkvrg@acm.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: No vesa device
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>Number:         72213
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       No vesa device
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 30 20:00:39 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Mon Nov 01 16:41:10 GMT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Mon Nov 01 16:41:10 GMT 2004
>Originator:     mv
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6/amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD gecko3.bs.net 5.3-BETA6 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 #0: Wed Sep 29 02:11:49 EDT 20 04     root@gecko3.bs.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM3  amd64

>Description:
Not able to add vesa capability to amd64 platform, either by recompiling
the kernel or loading a module.

vidcontrol -i mode output only shows one mode available.

My graphics card is an agp-based radeon 9600 pro which is recognized by xorg/xfree86 when ' device agp' is added to the kernel.

Otherwise 5.x amd64 just gets better.  Many thanks for such goog work.

>How-To-Repeat:
Not able to add vesa to the kernel configuration file. 
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: obrien 
State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 1 16:34:02 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
AMD64 has no vm86 (virtual machine 8086) mode.  This means we don't have 
VESA capabilities to use to program the VGA device - vm86 lets you ask the 
video BIOS to do it for you.  Someone would need to write code to program 
the vga registers directly in order to get the various VGA modes on 
FreeBSD/AMD64. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72213 
>Unformatted:
