From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 05:14:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD9D16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:14:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77CA43D4C for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:14:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de) Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BulRB-0008NN-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:14:09 +0200 Received: from [217.246.201.38] (helo=oliverfuchs.ath.cx) (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BulRA-0007tu-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:14:08 +0200 Received: from oliverfuchs.ath.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i7B5E4Di004948verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:14:04 +0200 Received: (from oliverfuchs1@localhost) by oliverfuchs.ath.cx (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) id i7B560Xw004723 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:06:00 +0200 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:06:00 +0200 From: Oliver Fuchs To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040811050559.GA4417@oliverfuchs.ath.cx> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <2264717.1092166055631.JavaMail.root@statler.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2264717.1092166055631.JavaMail.root@statler.psp.pas.earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:c2b2791553508cc938db2bcf18721a3c Subject: Re: Monitor Resolution??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:14:11 -0000 On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a question that may be trivial to most however, I don't seem to know how to modify my monitor resolution. I am using FreeBSD without X windows install. Text only and the font and overall resolution is 'HUGE'. I recently installed 4.10 (last night) but I don't know where I went wrong with this? Thanks in advance for your help. > An acceptable resolution is VESA_800x600 (I do not think that the kernel can do more at the moment?). To enable it you have to recompile your kernel with option SC_PIXEL_MODE enabled (so you can use the raster text mode). Then load the vesa support with kldload vesa and try "vidconrtol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600". If it is o.k. for you put in your /etc/rc.conf file: allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" and add to /boot/loader.conf: vesa_load="YES" to load the vesa module at startup. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit