j@bitminer.ca writes:
> Just for laughs I booted an OpenBSD 4.2 CD, circa 1997 (and five years
> older than the hardware) and while it recognized few devices it did show
> all video correctly. The video device vga1 shows as vendor "ATI"
> unknown product 0x9806 rev 0x00.
That release predates the introduction of the framebuffer console.
I have had a problem since that started, the video mode selected is
incorrect and I see the boot messages in VGA mode until the framebuffer
console is activated, then the screen goes blank and pops up a message
complaining about the video mode. I have to do a blind login and then
run startx. Never learned how to disable wsdisplay and keep the simple
80x24 console.
Allan
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