From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 12:08:30 2005 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 2B35C16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:08:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.onet.ru (mail.onet.ru [213.85.10.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA9C43D58 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:08:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from misha@onet.ru) Received: by mail.onet.ru (Postfix, from userid 426) id 3C7EC4519A; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:08:26 +0300 (MSK) Received: from pppoe-50-200.onet.ru (pppoe-50-200.onet.ru [213.85.50.200]) by mail.onet.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DBA45187 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:08:22 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:08:21 +0300 From: Michael X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0.1.33) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <221488026.20050201150821@onet.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on mail.onet.ru X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=2.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Screen refresh rate in the console. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michael List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:08:30 -0000 Hello, folks, first of all I have to apologize for my english. My aim is to change screen resolution in FreeBSD console, only way that I see now - using of vidcontrol(1). I've compiled my kernel with proper options: SC_PIXEL_MODE and VGA_WIDTH90 and vga device. After rebooting I obtained abbility to set some modes. But e.g. after issuing 'vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600' (refering to man page) vertical refresh rate falling down from 70Hz to 60Hz, which I found terrible for my eyes.. (I consider that 70Hz is bad too, but it's the maximum that I've ever seen on FreeBSD machine..). So, the question is: how to set another refresh rate, and is it possible to set e.g. 1024x768 mode? Thank you for any help, promptings or advice. Have a nice day. ############################################################################## OS: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 Video: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 (AGP 8x) Display: Rolsen C708 Kernel additions: options VGA_WIDTH90 options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VESA Full dmesg: http://www.epicsol.org/~misha/tmp/dmesg Full kernel: http://www.epicsol.org/~misha/tmp/kernel ############################################################################## #vidcontrol -i mode mode# flags type size font window linear buffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 40 (0x028) 0x00000001 T 90x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 42 (0x02a) 0x00000001 T 90x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 46 (0x02e) 0x00000001 T 90x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 48 (0x030) 0x00000001 T 90x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 256 (0x100) 0x0000000f G 640x400x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 257 (0x101) 0x0000000f G 640x480x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 258 (0x102) 0x0000000b G 800x600x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 65536k 259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 260 (0x104) 0x0000000b G 1024x768x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 65536k 261 (0x105) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 262 (0x106) 0x0000000b G 1280x1024x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 65536k 263 (0x107) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 264 (0x108) 0x0000000d T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0xf4000000 65536k 265 (0x109) 0x0000000d T 132x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0xf4000000 65536k 266 (0x10a) 0x0000000d T 132x43 8x9 0xb8000 32k 32k 0xf4000000 65536k 267 (0x10b) 0x0000000d T 132x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0xf4000000 65536k 268 (0x10c) 0x0000000d T 132x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0xf4000000 65536k 270 (0x10e) 0x0000000f G 320x200x16 1 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 271 (0x10f) 0x0000000f G 320x200x32 1 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 273 (0x111) 0x0000000f G 640x480x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 274 (0x112) 0x0000000f G 640x480x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 276 (0x114) 0x0000000f G 800x600x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 277 (0x115) 0x0000000f G 800x600x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 279 (0x117) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 280 (0x118) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 282 (0x11a) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 283 (0x11b) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 304 (0x130) 0x0000000f G 320x200x8 1 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 305 (0x131) 0x0000000f G 320x400x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 306 (0x132) 0x0000000f G 320x400x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 307 (0x133) 0x0000000f G 320x400x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 308 (0x134) 0x0000000f G 320x240x8 1 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 309 (0x135) 0x0000000f G 320x240x16 1 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 310 (0x136) 0x0000000f G 320x240x32 1 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 317 (0x13d) 0x0000000f G 640x400x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 318 (0x13e) 0x0000000f G 640x400x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 325 (0x145) 0x0000000f G 1600x1200x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 326 (0x146) 0x0000000f G 1600x1200x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 327 (0x147) 0x0000000f G 1400x1050x8 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 328 (0x148) 0x0000000f G 1400x1050x16 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k 338 (0x152) 0x0000000f G 2048x1536x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf4000000 65536k ############################################################################## #vidcontrol -i adapter fb0: vga0, type:VESA VGA (5), flags:0x700ff initial mode:24, current mode:258, BIOS mode:3 frame buffer window:0xa0000, buffer size:0x4000000 window size:0x10000, origin:0x0 display start address (0, 0), scan line width:100 reserved:0x0