Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:26:50 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Changing console size, vidcontrol only lists 80x25 Message-ID: <4727230A.2090601@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <a5ea14b3c2b822f5d642217e8173b5dc@gmail.com> References: <a5ea14b3c2b822f5d642217e8173b5dc@gmail.com>
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Joshua Isom wrote: > I recently bought a new LCD monitor for my computer. It handles > 1440x900 and seems to automatically do some scaling(although buggy) to > utilize the entire screen, resulting in a stretched, blurry, and cropped > screen for the console. After some time and playing around, I was about > to get Xorg to behave and use the native resolution of the monitor. > When I run vidcontrol -i mode, only 80x25 is displayed for options, > nothing else. The "option VESA" doesn't seem to work in STABLE anymore > so I'm not sure how to be able to get better support. I'm currently > running STABLE on amd64. > > You also need options SC_PIXEL_MODE in your kernel -- Regards, Doug
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