Subject: Re: Splash screen boot HOWTO
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Mark Kirby <mark@coris.org.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 02/18/2006 20:59:30
On Saturday 18 February 2006 16:51, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 20:44 +0000, Mark Kirby wrote:
> > I just tried this but all i get is garbage on the screen. The flag logo
> > was just a small section tiled repetadly on the diagonal. The console is
> > just grey.
>
> Does your video card support VESA bios extensions 2.0 or greater?

dmesg says 

vesabios0 at mainbus0: version 3.0, NVIDIA Corporation nv43 Board - p218h2
vesafb0 at vesabios0: fb 640x480x8 @0xb0000000 (VBE/PM)
wsdisplay0 at vesafb0 kbdmux 1: console (fb, vt100 emulation)

the card is a geforce 6 6600 GT

Mark

> Cheers,
> Jared

-- 
The NetBSD CVS Digest http://digest.coris.org.uk
RSS feed http://digest.coris.org.uk/feeds/cvs-rss.xml