Bug 72213

Summary: No vesa device
Product: Base System Reporter: mrkvrg <mrkvrg>
Component: amd64Assignee: freebsd-amd64 (Nobody) <amd64>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.3-BETA6   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description mrkvrg 2004-09-30 21:00:39 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 David E. O'Brien freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-11-01 16:34:02 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

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.