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Subject: kern/160692: FreeBSD must consider shipping with SC_PIXEL_MODE on
	(possibility of > 80x25 resolution)
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>Number:         160692
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD must consider shipping with SC_PIXEL_MODE on (possibility of > 80x25 resolution)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 13 03:10:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Wojciech A. Koszek
>Release:        9.0-BETA2
>Organization:
FreeBSD Project
>Environment:
9.0-BETA2/i386 from the latest test release
>Description:
In my private opinion we should seriously consider enabling SC_PIXEL_MODE by default in FreeBSD or, in the worst case, making it a tunable.

Not being able to see 'ps axuw' (on 80x25 console) is inconvenient.

For test setups / working in VirtualBox/VMWare VMs, it would be beneficial
to be able to increase the resolution just a bit to get something functional.

In the ideal case I could get a system where vidcontrol(8) can change a graphics modes.
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>Fix:


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