From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 11: 0:48 2003 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 CE73637B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from guava.silverwraith.com (66-214-182-79.la-cbi.charterpipeline.net [66.214.182.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B23C43EB2 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: (qmail 89266 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Jan 2003 19:00:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 19:00:41 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:00:41 -0800 (PST) From: Avleen Vig To: "saai@uni.edu" Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: console framebuffer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030107105849.W42279@guava.silverwraith.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Andrew Friedley wrote: > I'm new to freebsd, coming from linux. > In linux I use a 1600x1200 framebuffer console, is it possible to set up > something like this in freebsd? I am not talking about X Windows, but > increasing the size of the default 80x25 console. Probably one of the most asked questions. Search the archives. FreeBSD unfortunately doesn't have a console framebuffer (something, I think, is sorely missed. I hate using X jsut to get 1024x768@85Hz for one xterm). But you can get it ip to 800x600@60Hz. man vidcontrol. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message