kern/144654: [vesa] VESA support broken on FreeBSD 8.0 Stable [regression]

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 06:32 pm, barbara wrote:
> > On Monday 15 March 2010 08:19 pm, barbara wrote:
> > > > On Monday 15 March 2010 02:41 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > > > > Can you please try the attached patch?
> > > >
> > > > Oops, it attached a wrong patch.  Please try this instead.
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for the inconvenience,
> > > >
> > > > Jung-uk Kim
> > >
> > > I had the same problem on RELENG_8 since yesterday (prev.
> > > buildworld on Feb. 28). I've tried rebuilding the kernel with
> > > your patch but no luck.
> >
> > Your problem may be different.  Different VESA BIOS has different
> > quirks.  Your BIOS actually sets non-VGA compatible bits
> > correctly. However, there is no standard VGA graphic mode at all,
> > which is pretty strange.
>
> Just for my personal understanding, can you explain me what does it
> means that "there is no standard VGA graphic mode at all" and what
> make you say that?

Your "vidcontrol -i mode" output from the previous e-mail, i.e., all 
graphic mode belong to VESA mode (starting from 0x100).  Are you sure 
you have SC_PIXEL_MODE in your kernel configuration?

> > What's your graphics card?
>
> vgapci0 at pci0:2:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x00000000
> chip=0x042110de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
>     device     = 'GeForce 8500 GT (G86)'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA

Thanks.  I guess I have to buy one of those nVidia thingies. :-(

> > > I had to comment the 'allscreens_flags="MODE_280"' line in
> > > my /etc/rc.conf as the monitor was going black with 'NO SIGNAL'
> > > on OSD. You asked to the OP if the box is pingable. I think
> > > that you want to know if the kernel is still alive, am I right?
> > > I can "blindly" login and reboot the pc while the screen is
> > > black.
> >
> > So, it is not rendering anything on screen.  Hmm...  Can you
> > please try the attached patch?
>
> No luck also with the new patch.
> I've applied it to the original file, not to the one with your
> previous patch, is that correct?

Either way is fine.

> It's not rendering anything because the led of the monitor turns
> from blue to orange, just like when the pc is turned off and the
> monitor is on. This happens running vidcontrol -i MODE_X where X is
> one of the modes of type "G" (as I've said I had to comment the
> allscreens_flags line in /etc/rc.conf). And if I subsequently switch
> to another ttyv with alt+f[1-8], the mode is not the default 80x25
> as normally expected and the led is still orange and sometimes the
> speaker plays a beep!

Okay, something is very wrong.  Can you please try the following?

sysctl debug.x86bios.call=1
sysctl debug.x86bios.int=1
vidcontrol MODE_X
vidcontrol MODE_24	<- Sorry, you will have to blindly type it.

And please send me the dmesg output.

Thanks,

JK