From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 00:01:53 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 CC0F816A41C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:01:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A9543D4C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:01:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i3so920975wra for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ah/l0R+qehBcbvBZwujSBqAXrU5otMePIFOfxyprGGQK7/vuFrOzVcgV5s6+zrUAV4JJUggQHxQNB9ATDRIxj6MiTAgMfgySOVMWBKVV7GXvlkngHJr28On83ThT2va8uIk6CwIDXniZOgiPgq7MS6ZIVW0dXJepSDOrdUEE11E= Received: by 10.54.137.2 with SMTP id k2mr199835wrd; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.11 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:01:52 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20050716173115.GB1490@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200507161318.10377.nb_root@videotron.ca> <20050716173115.GB1490@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nicolas Blais Subject: Re: Boot in 1024x768x16 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nikolas Britton List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:01:53 -0000 On 7/16/05, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-07-16 13:17, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how to boot in 1024x768x16 (vidcontrol MODE_279) or > > at least have all the ttyv at that resolution after boot. I have seen > > the sc flag 0x0080 to set it at 800x600 but I would want 1024 since my > > lcd native resolution is 1024x768 and in 800x600 the refresh rate > > causes flicker. >=20 > Does the video mode switch to 1024x768 as expected when you run as root > the following command? >=20 > # vidcontrol MODE_279 >=20 > If it does, then you can add "MODE_279" to allscreens_flags in your > /etc/rc.conf file. >=20 They finally got the raster VESA modes patch into FreeBSD??? Will it be in FreeBSD 6.x? If anyone whats this in FreeBSD 5.x I have a basic script that will apply that patch. The patch I have might be outdated (someone have a more current one???) Anyways: Run this script as root (make sure the patch was applied cleanly): --------------------- cd /tmp rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz rm -r current-vesa_patch tar -zxvf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons patch