From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by 10.236.189.66 with SMTP id b42csp115761yhn; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <9front+bncCPTY2Ox2ELqC9_8EGgR4-b1o@googlegroups.com> Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of 9front+bncCPTY2Ox2ELqC9_8EGgR4-b1o@googlegroups.com designates 10.216.244.5 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.216.244.5; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of 9front+bncCPTY2Ox2ELqC9_8EGgR4-b1o@googlegroups.com designates 10.216.244.5 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=9front+bncCPTY2Ox2ELqC9_8EGgR4-b1o@googlegroups.com; dkim=pass header.i=9front+bncCPTY2Ox2ELqC9_8EGgR4-b1o@googlegroups.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.216.244.5]) by 10.216.244.5 with SMTP id l5mr2986039wer.57.1342030138572 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:x-authenticated:x-provags-id:message-id :date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:x-y-gmx-trusted :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post :list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oiJGKakhK8qCX2TWTV4hru74yg59PPZhv9GFnf1vJ7s=; b=VZ7yE88AgVdY3WyoDAU92ZE4rS9Omdvw9pVpCG1Y5g73qUtGe31O4kJ9i5LmZjwC0Y ARcLxxrT6LeybnnRy2LsmYBozr15pMgWZ1CnCr0ylP32w5FP4mgI18KBa44OklyaQxCF DTSYcmdXX+mQvKYJ+0vJE3pRfHtGXpu8VzHWM= Received: by 10.216.244.5 with SMTP id l5mr517715wer.57.1342030138410; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:58 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: 9front@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.216.206.198 with SMTP id l48ls1090698weo.3.gmail; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.105.38 with SMTP id gj6mr3588626wib.0.1342030137156; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.105.38 with SMTP id gj6mr3588625wib.0.1342030137148; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net. [213.165.64.22]) by gmr-mx.google.com with SMTP id a5si4718390wiy.0.2012.07.11.11.08.56; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of cinap_lenrek@gmx.de designates 213.165.64.22 as permitted sender) client-ip=213.165.64.22; Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2012 18:08:56 -0000 Received: from i5E878172.versanet.de (EHLO rei2.9hal) [94.135.129.114] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2012 20:08:56 +0200 X-Authenticated: #10700799 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+qc6oTd+Sq56tsyqrDT9oqRBHqnqF40Xp6ZFxo71 77rPXqGx3/Cj4V Message-ID: <9722f71261fe2000435ebf713ecdcae9@rei2.9hal> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:06:57 +0200 From: cinap_lenrek@gmx.de To: 9front@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: vga In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Original-Sender: cinap_lenrek@gmx.de X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of cinap_lenrek@gmx.de designates 213.165.64.22 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=cinap_lenrek@gmx.de Reply-To: 9front@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list 9front@googlegroups.com; contact 9front+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: <9front.googlegroups.com> X-Google-Group-Id: 831096995978 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: 9front@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit another way might be patching the vesa bios. if i remember correctly the previous failures with nvidia card you had where due to the kernel not recognizing the framebuffer membars correctly and just mapping the addresses given by vesa bios with size calculation done from the video mode requested. when trying to switch to higher mode, the rest of the framebuffer was not mapped causing kernel panic on access. this was fixed a while ago but we didnt continue with trying the bios patching trick... -- cinap