On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 10:05:36AM +0200, Jon Doe wrote:
Here's a log showing a boot into X, then switching to console, then trying to kldload vesa.ko. Looks like X is happily probing vbe modes, but the console chokes with "SeaVGABIOS: x86emu leal trap!".
That error message indicates that the vga bios is running in an older version of the x86emu emulator that is too broken to be capable of running the vga bios. (Specifically, the "leal" instruction is not properly implemented.)
Unfortunately, there isn't much that can be done about this on the vga bios side. There are newer versions of x86emu available that are capable of emulating SeaVGABIOS, but I don't know if someone has already integrated it into FreeBSD or how one would go about integrating it. Alternatively, since the log shows the vesa mode scan was run natively instead of via x86emu, it may be possible to change the code to switch modes using native execution instead of via x86emu.
-Kevin
Ah, I see :-( Thanks for explaining the problem. I think the native vesa mode scan you're referring to might have been X, not FreeBSD.