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Subject: vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text console
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>Number:         4477
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text console
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep  6 12:20:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Apr 26 10:41:08 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun Apr 26 10:41:19 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Charlie &
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970901-RELENG i386
>Organization:
SPLINE JV, Kiev
>Environment:

	Pentium 100 / RAM 64M / 2xIDE HDDs / S3 Trio64 videocard / b/w SVGA monitor

>Description:

	vidcontrol refuses to set any VGA/EGA videomode different
	from default 8x25 one.
	Custom 8x16, 8x14 and 8x8 console fonts are successfully loaded
	and 8x16 font do certainly work.

>How-To-Repeat:

	# vidcontrol VGA_80x30
	Cannot set videomode: Device not configured
	# vidcontrol EGA_80x43
	Cannot set videomode: Device not configured
	# tty
	/dev/ttyv1
	#

>Fix:
	
	No ideas so far, sorry.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: root@nt5.ipi.kiev.ua
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: bin/4477: vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text
	 console 
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:36:51 +0900

 >>Number:         4477
 >>Category:       bin
 >>Synopsis:       vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text console
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep  6 12:20:01 PDT 1997
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Charlie &
 >>Organization:
 >SPLINE JV, Kiev
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970901-RELENG i386
 >>Environment:
 >
 >	Pentium 100 / RAM 64M / 2xIDE HDDs / S3 Trio64 videocard / b/w SVGA mon
 >itor
 >
 >>Description:
 >
 >	vidcontrol refuses to set any VGA/EGA videomode different
 >	from default 8x25 one.
 
 This happens depending on the installed video card.  It is annoying
 but necessary restriction in the syscons driver.
 
 Syscons does not let the user to change video mode (via vidcontrol) if
 the video mode parameter table in the video BIOS is not organized the
 way syscons expects.  The table is checked during syscons'
 initialization.
 
 Syscons needs the table to find correct set of parameters to change
 the video mode of the given video card.  Some video card manufactures
 somehow decided to write the parameter table in a way different from
 the IBM's original VGA BIOS.  Its BIOS knows how the table is ordered,
 but syscons cannot...
 
 What brand of video cards are you using?
 
 Kazu
 

From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: root@nt5.ipi.kiev.ua
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/4477: vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text
	 console 
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:37:56 +0900

 >>Number:         4477
 >>Category:       bin
 >>Synopsis:       vidcontrol fails to change videomode on syscons' text console
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep  6 12:20:01 PDT 1997
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Charlie &
 >>Organization:
 >SPLINE JV, Kiev
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970901-RELENG i386
 >>Environment:
 >
 >	Pentium 100 / RAM 64M / 2xIDE HDDs / S3 Trio64 videocard / b/w SVGA mon
 >itor
 >
 >>Description:
 >
 >	vidcontrol refuses to set any VGA/EGA videomode different
 >	from default 8x25 one.
 >	Custom 8x16, 8x14 and 8x8 console fonts are successfully loaded
 >	and 8x16 font do certainly work.
 
 Hi.
 
 You reported the above problem a while ago.
 
 FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE (aka RELENG_2_2) now has slightly improbed video
 mode handling code in the console driver (syscons.c 1.182.2.28,
 syscons.h 1.23.2.9).
 
 If you could try out the new driver and tell us if it works for your
 hardware, we would be grateful.
 
 Kazu
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 26 10:41:08 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
timed out 
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