Re: turning off vga_pci
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:11:54PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 03:13:24AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > > Is there a nice way to stop vga_pci from attaching to my video card, or > > > to allow another driver to attach to it after vga_pci has done its thing? > > > > > > At the moment I'm removing all traces of vga_pci from the Makefile in > > > my kernel 'compile' directory (which works)... > > > > Just remove the vga_pci entry in sys/conf/files. > > vga_pci is actually more of a nuisance than anything, and I've no > objections to seeing it removed (or doing it myself for that matter). > All the good reasons I thought I had for keeping it are long gone. Ok, that's on my todo list. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alcôve - Open Source Software Engineer - http://www.alcove.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: turning off vga_pci
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 03:13:24AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > Is there a nice way to stop vga_pci from attaching to my video card, or > > to allow another driver to attach to it after vga_pci has done its thing? > > > > At the moment I'm removing all traces of vga_pci from the Makefile in > > my kernel 'compile' directory (which works)... > > Just remove the vga_pci entry in sys/conf/files. vga_pci is actually more of a nuisance than anything, and I've no objections to seeing it removed (or doing it myself for that matter). All the good reasons I thought I had for keeping it are long gone. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: turning off vga_pci
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 03:13:24AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > Is there a nice way to stop vga_pci from attaching to my video card, or > to allow another driver to attach to it after vga_pci has done its thing? > > At the moment I'm removing all traces of vga_pci from the Makefile in > my kernel 'compile' directory (which works)... Just remove the vga_pci entry in sys/conf/files. It would be nice to make this optional if we want to load a module for a given graphic card later on. I have for example a VESA-extended driver (http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/download/s3pci.c) for S3 graphic cards that _have_ linear framebuffer but only VESA 1.2 bios. It currently works on top of VESA by replacing the video switch by another. Exactly as VESA does on top of VGA. What about including it into the tree as a module... s3_pci.c would be in sys/dev/pci, nothing in sys/conf/files: just a module in sys/modules/s3. Nicholas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alcôve - Open Source Software Engineer - http://www.alcove.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
