vesa driver already for amd64!

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 19.08.2009 um 22:57 schrieb Stefan Bethke:

> Am 19.08.2009 um 20:38 schrieb Dmitriy Demidov:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I just want to make you know about one ongoing project of "porting"  
>> vesa
>> driver from i386 into amd64 architecture. You can read more about  
>> it's status
>> in English here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6291
>> Or in Russian here: http://forum.lissyara.su/viewtopic.php? 
>> f=8&t=19906
>
> Cool stuff.  I've just tried in VMware, and the window size changes  
> very briefly, but then vidcontrol tells me:
> vidcontrol: cannot activate raster display: Inappropriate ioctl for  
> device

Sorry for the noise, reading the instructions carefully helps.  I was  
missing options SC_PIXEL_MODE, and now everything appears to be  
working perfectly, including the boot-time mode change via hints.sc. 
0.flags.

8-bit modes give just a blank window (with the right dimensions  
though), and I can switch to a different console and switch to a  
working mode.


Stefan

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