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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> The vesa driver can be run on most systems where the newer graphics are 
> not directly supported.  See the last example here:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html#x-c
> onfig-video-cards-file

My experience from qemu is that vesa doesn't support resolution 1920x1080.  In this case I couldn't use it.  I'll test it.