Re: unconfigured generic ATI VGA card?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:42:11 +1100, "Malcolm Herbert" <mjch%mjch.net@localhost>
> said:
> > I have an oldish ATI PCI video card which I've just added to a Soekris
> > net5501 host running NetBSD 4.0 GENERIC.  I'm assuming this card would
> > be a generic VGA-capable card, yet although the kernel recognises the
> > card it isn't configured:
>
> I've done a bit more digging in the kernel source and it appears that
> this card would be recognised by dev/pci/radeonfb.c which I'm adding to
> a custom config with
>
> radeonfb*       at pci? function ?      # ATI Radeon. R3xx is
> problematic

That's for a framebuffer, not a VGA text console.

You need to find a way to get vga* to attach:

vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: NVIDIA Vanta (rev. 0x15)


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Stephen