From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 12:12:52 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 4856B16A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:12:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bobself@charter.net) Received: from mxsf40.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf40.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A5343D48 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:12:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bobself@charter.net) Received: from mxip02a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip02a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.132]) by mxsf40.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8MCCobg013534 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:12:50 -0400 Received: from 24-177-225-234.dhcp.spbg.sc.charter.com (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([24.177.225.234]) by mxip02a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 22 Sep 2005 08:12:49 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.97,138,1125892800"; d="scan'208"; a="1406932688:sNHT15993884" Message-ID: <43329FB8.1040109@charter.net> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:12:40 -0400 From: bob self User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luke Dean References: <43320FF5.3000706@charter.net> <20050921232517.N1562@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> In-Reply-To: <20050921232517.N1562@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12:12:52 -0000 Luke Dean wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, 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 >> >> How can I fix these problems? > > > About the left/right shifting.. I also have a 19" LCD monitor, Nvidia > card (a GeForce FX 5500), vesa enabled in the kernel, and I used to > get a shifting problem like you describe. > > I switched from Xorg's nv driver to Nvidia's linux driver > (ports/x11/nvidia-driver) and the shifting problem went away. > I'm using a kvm switch to switch between winxp and 5.4. I changed "nv" in /etc/X11 to "nvidia" (since kldstat showed that nvidia.ko was loaded) and now my gui screen looks pretty good so far. I was able to use a monitor menu-item to 'resync' and got the console screen left-right centered again in console mode. > Before I switched, resyncing the monitor would correct the problem. > > Mine is a dual-boot machine that runs WinXP and FreeBSD 5.4, and since > switching to Nvidia's driver made the problem go away, I reasoned that > the nv driver and the Nvidia driver for Windows were confusing the > monitor by using slightly different refresh rates for the same screen > mode or something, and that's why I had to resync it every time I > rebooted from one OS to the other. > > thanks, Bob