svn commit: r198858 - in head/sys: dev/fb dev/syscons sys

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 January 2010 10:30 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > I understand; I was thinking if maybe there are some "hackish" or
> > indirect way to tell that BIOS is lying.
> 
> Probably you mean something like the attached patch?   Basically, with 
> this patch, we ignore the VGA compatibility flag if the DAC mode is 
> higher than 6-bit.  Let me know if it works for you.

Yup, this patch also works.  It is kinda funny to observe the big creepy
ASCII-artish beastie floating around darker screen (looks like shifted
palette thing again) after *unloading* vesa.ko and then invoking logo
screensaver.  :-)

./danfe