From: Tom Linden (tom@kednos.com)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 22:30:58 EDT
The kernel that i was running did not hav the drive for tga configured
as Tom Blinn astutely observed.
Problem solved. Thanks all.
>
>Yep, your existing kernel doesn't know about this graphics card but
>you should have all the right stuff on the system. While you are
>running the genvmunix, as root, do the command
>
> sizer -n FOOBAR
>
>and then diff the /tmp/FOOBAR file against your existing file for
>/usr/sys/conf/SYSTEMNAME -- you should be able to spot the line for
>the graphics card, add it to your existing kernel config file (you
>can just add it at the end, order mostly doesn't matter), then do
>a "doconfig -c SYSTEMNAME" and you'll preserve any other changes
>in the file. The resulting kernel SHOULD support the TGA2 aka
>ZLXp2-EV5 at the full 1280x1024 resolution. I imagine that you
>already have the right fonts loaded, unless you did a subset of
>the installation subsets.
>
>Tom
>
>> When I boot the generic kernel it comes up full resolution
>>
>> Does this mean I need to rebuild my kernel? I think the last time I did
>> that
>> was on BSD4.3
>>
>> The console msgs indicated that the driver for tga0 was 128031024
>>
>> as for -gt
>>
>> ZLXp2-EV5
>
>Tom
>
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