Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:34:52 -0500 From: "14th.president@gmail.com" <14th.president@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kremels@kreme.com Subject: Re: Setting console resultion Message-ID: <CA%2BF8BMxi=Qm1nen2f1e9vTS3qp59=OiCUbZBEyDXvMA8q088bg@mail.gmail.com>
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>> I'm not sure why this is so hard, but I've read dozens of pages >> and threads on setting up the console to boot into something >> other than VGA 80x24 and I can't get anything to change the >> resolution. On an ancient Core Duo laptop: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYCUSTOMKERNEL: (note what's commented out) # device vga # options VESA device splash # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console # device sc # options SC_PIXEL_MODE # vt is the new video console driver device vt device vt_vga device agp # support several AGP chipsets /boot/loader.conf: (irrelevent lines omitted) cuse_load="YES" drm2_load="YES" acpi_video_load="YES" /etc/rc.conf: (again, rear elephant lines emitted) kld_list="i915kms" This autodetects the correct resolution halfway (or a bit more) through the boot sequence with a two or three sec- ond pause while the screen is blank and then gives a nearly un-readably small console font. I use the good ol' "startx" to start X, but I guess that's not relevant here. I have a similar setup on an older Xeon (amd64) that works pretty much exactly the same, though it runs headless most of the time.
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