From: Nathan Strong <gblues@jps.net>
  To  : becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:18:42 -0800 (PST)

Re: installation woes

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:

> This indicates a not-quite-VGA-compatible card. I get the same problem 
> when I run the VGA KGi driver under BOCHS.
> 
> AFAIK you can safely comment out the range between (inclusive):
> 
>         temp1 = io_in8(FCTRLr);
> and
>         io_out8(temp1, (IS_MONO_IO ? FCTRLwm : FCTRLwc));
> 
> Please check if that works. If it does, we should make that check optional.

Well, the insertion process got a little farther this time. Here's the
result:

IBM VGA chipset driver rev $Revision: 1.16 $
Detected 256KBytes of Video RAM
KGI monitor driver rev $Revision: 1.12 $
VGA DAC driver rev. $Revision: 1.6 $
VGA clock driver rev $Revision: 1.5 $,  common code:$Revision: 1.7 $
IBM VGA driver loaded.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
error: kgicon: Cannot find any usable video mode.

exit_kgi: Finished.r: Unsupported bpp '16'.
kgicon.o: init_module: Device or resource busy



> 
> > kgicon.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> 
> Check /var/log/messages, please. That might be the kernel holding the VGA 
> ports. Most drivers have been "fixed" to ignore this error, though I 
> don't know about ET6000.

The only odd  things I see in /var/log/messages are a bunch of lines that
say "--MARK--" but other than that it's all kernel boot messages.

Nathan
gblues@jps.net