From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jan 31 00:34:53 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC01ECC22B for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 14th.president@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ot0-x22f.google.com (mail-ot0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c0f::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6828269FCF for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 14th.president@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ot0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id q9so810086oti.0 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:34:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=M8EF7Hgn8h8tH5WseB9d1GhktiYSlCzbUNTygO0oN8w=; b=t+QAo/My9yh70gEK1G21B+tE8tCEVfJ7hQWTmlBwOIEyK0BzNB0PIIb8/OzkgBs3Ja tzGxLZA2ZUx2et161M8nvI4rsXczkCJ9iZmfl3DgYCxhF0/GxsdeFDfDl/P9mFocixnq rwy7h0klbmY2YatbyEpRnOnrkCVFEHQCwhBDfvKTCcJDRDHsYLSXePWbOpG2WBICaIO5 XMOFusZzJun0lLfKNxXujyeoWXr9CbhF6pDrxq15DCZXOj1rPZ0j2nkLWnJDVh+ekebb wCp5ccIAjdDRMJ+mU09igNhMQbR8wMZhXfzG3yrNCCcGkDqk+JFIjO5gU5yvNLsjfbxN 6xaQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=M8EF7Hgn8h8tH5WseB9d1GhktiYSlCzbUNTygO0oN8w=; b=MasOam2NtsCx8FEfXCGBn8M5mYANMAtLnwKf6sRN5XeS4md1Cwz6zSTlJA3o+RMczx O09FyHVIIk7LoynGm7TDvw4H0rCbBqv/RvIYlW/TeaDtKS1dCYNAtTgQsZQnswCBP1xh rSDrb8HvMfyLzJWaIhHAesm3N5gBXR9BCto2ymlw9w1dbr00LjWSq4x/sEYEW6C60GNn qElCben/UdwegcoAyBAAfS/o/4aJyhjzAxFWfK4JYJ57pxZlDoCiaGPcxY/XwRNvulTW bEI0MqvbxNiCgVXFlXewJ4c4d/kG0cNZYayeP4ZCCqDDgYz+NclhscPe8Q0EeSPxISNP Akhw== X-Gm-Message-State: AKwxytdym4/jNnoVRVcjHPz2qLdjOxt3Ux9E0q3kSUwhRz32IqkbAgE1 rPmLuKp2C1wtMasiPnJVXsN6UrYHc89lHEjJAI0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x226dNQ77abOoutV19cUBQ3NiKKqNd/UlnwINkoOIkvJC0v6d2Ls1QSGKIDPAlqZvcBylZTBMfow4/VUksCA4YgI= X-Received: by 10.157.48.148 with SMTP id s20mr4045343otc.218.1517358892537; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:34:52 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.46.29 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:34:52 -0800 (PST) From: "14th.president@gmail.com" <14th.president@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:34:52 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Setting console resultion To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kremels@kreme.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:34:54 -0000 >> I'm not sure why this is so hard, but I've read dozens of pages >> and threads on setting up the console to boot into something >> other than VGA 80x24 and I can't get anything to change the >> resolution. On an ancient Core Duo laptop: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYCUSTOMKERNEL: (note what's commented out) # device vga # options VESA device splash # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console # device sc # options SC_PIXEL_MODE # vt is the new video console driver device vt device vt_vga device agp # support several AGP chipsets /boot/loader.conf: (irrelevent lines omitted) cuse_load="YES" drm2_load="YES" acpi_video_load="YES" /etc/rc.conf: (again, rear elephant lines emitted) kld_list="i915kms" This autodetects the correct resolution halfway (or a bit more) through the boot sequence with a two or three sec- ond pause while the screen is blank and then gives a nearly un-readably small console font. I use the good ol' "startx" to start X, but I guess that's not relevant here. I have a similar setup on an older Xeon (amd64) that works pretty much exactly the same, though it runs headless most of the time.