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Originally Posted by shep
<CTL>D would not generate any screen output.
The live CD appeared to boot and did some things and eventually powered off but again did not generate any video output. Tested the 5.0 cd in another machine with a radeon agp card and it worked fine.
4.0.1 generated a very low resolution Welcome screen and if I left 5.0 in long enough eventually the moniter would generate a message "Video mode not supported"
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Unfortunatelly I cannot help you on this, the best thing is to write to one of the NetBSD mailing lists and include verbose dmesg with as much other info as possible, and then wait for someone to respond.
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Originally Posted by shep
<Is there a way to pass video modes to the boot kernel as one does in linux
eg vga=771?
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Something similar is possible with -CURRENT, see this: http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/hea...buffer_console
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