It seems Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
>
> >I have switched graphics card from S3Virge to ATI Mach64 RagePro rev 92
> >with 8 MB RAM a I have noticed that VESA module doesn't work with this
> >graphics card on my -current box - I can't use VESA_XXX console modes now.
> >Command kldstat says there is loaded module vesa.ko. No errors are
> >reported when I'm trying to unload/load vesa.ko module. Kernel reports
> >during boot:
> >
> >VESA: v2.0, 8192k memory, flags:0x0, mode table:0xc024f622 (1000022)
> >VESA: ATI MACH64
> >
> >Command "vidcontrol -i mode" reports lines below. It looks VESA module
> >can't read mode table properly. But simple VESA utilities in DOS are capable
> >to determine all VESA modes supported by ATI Mach64 card with VESA 2.0 BIOS.
> >Is this known problem? Or should I invetigate this problem further?
>
> There is a good possibility that the VESA BIOS extension for this card
> is provided in a DOS TSR program and the VESA BIOS entry in the ROM
> BIOS is just a stub. Such implementation is allowed in the VESA spec.
Actually its because the ATI chip reports the modes as non-VGA modes,
which is correct (sortof), and our VESA code rejects those modeentries.
-Søren
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