On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:14:13AM +0000, atomicules wrote: > >I'd like to try out framebuffer. I went to boot prompt to list vesa modes, > >though "vesa list" doesn't work there. Help menu does not show vesa > >command. > > > >This is 6.1 GENERIC kernel on i386. > > > >Tried this on a fairly recent Dell laptop. So I don't think it would be a > >matter of lack of VBE support. > > I don't know about listing modes, I just put "vesa 1024x768x32" (the native > resolution of this laptop) into my /boot.cfg, i.e like so: > > menu=Boot big:vesa 1024x768x32;rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd > menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd
Setting that did not work for me. May be your machine shows vesa list on boot prompt as well. Mayuresh.
