From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 02:11:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A447916A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from efacilitas.de (smtp.efacilitas.de [85.10.196.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417DA43D45 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-37-18.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.37.18]) by efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263334B04A; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:18:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9D43321A8; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <43321293.2070201@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:10:27 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bob self References: <43320FF5.3000706@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <43320FF5.3000706@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher resolution console screen? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:11:29 -0000 bob self wrote: > 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 20 15:33:58 EDT 2005 > > > I have a 19" LCD monitor and usually run in console mode. My screen > resolution is 80x25, > but I'd like to get something like 120 x 60 if possible. I've played > with vidcontrol, but so far can't > get it to do anything useful. Also my console screen is now shifted to > the left one character, but when > I run startx my gui screen is shifted to the right about 1 character. > > My card is a nvidia card with 128 megs or ram and I have enabled vesa in > the kernel and have vesa_load="YES" > in /boot/loader.conf. However, I get this error in dmesg: > > module_register: module vesa already exists! > Module vesa failed to register: 17 This message wants to tell you that if you already have VESA support in your kernel then you don't need to load the kernel module. Make sure that you also have "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" beside "options VESA" in your kernel configuration file. Change the console mode with vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 and add allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" to rc.conf to let this setting be applied to all consoles after reboot. Björn