When booting NetBSD, the old Tecra 720CDT that I have, works quite nicely in 1024x768x15 mode with vesa fb.
I always have to activate VESA when booting the system:
> vesa on
> vesa 0x116
> boot netbsd
Now, I was able to somewhat automatize this process by editing /boot.cfg:
menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;vesa on;vesa 0x116;boot netbsd
No idea if this is preferable. I'd actually like to set this kind of behavior in the kernel itself. on OpenBSD, I'd simply use config to change the kernel settings. That, however, does not work on NetBSD. I'd have to recompile the kernel (that's my understanding).
Now, when looking through the config file, I couldn't find things related to vesa or switching to framebuffer mode while booting. Is this even possible? If so, how do I do that?
