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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:01:58 -0500
From: mfv <mfv@bway.net>
To: Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com>
Cc: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Portrait mode console?
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> On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 08:57 Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com>
> wrote:
>
>Is there a way to have the console recognize portrait mode of a monitor
>(vertical).  I tried setting the resolution to 1200x1920 but that did
>nothing.  I don't care if this is using vt or sc, although I did switch
>back to sc after reading the console font thread last week.
>

Hello Rod,

"man 1 xrandr" may help.

Cheers ...

Marek