From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 15:19:13 2006 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 E7C7416A4DF for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C897343D7E for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:19:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6BFJ8HR070818; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:19:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:18:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060711124346.33919.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060711124346.33919.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607111118.27446.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.3, clamav-milter version 0.88.3 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Peter Subject: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution) 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: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:19:14 -0000 On Tuesday 11 July 2006 08:43, Peter wrote: > --- Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2006-07-10 23:32, Peter wrote: > > >--- Stubborn wrote: > > >> You need to recompile your kernel with below > > >> options VESA > > > > > > Allright, did that. [snip] > I can manually get 80x60 with 'vidcontrol 80x60' and this is good > enough for me. How do I automate this at bootup? I typically can do "VGA_80x60" on most modern hardware. I can't remember what the difference between the "VGA" modes and others are, but I knew at one point and decided that "VGA" modes were better. Also, if that's not good enough for you then you can use arbitrary VESA graphics modes (as long as you're running 6.x or -CURRENT). On this machine I have: allscreens_flags="-f 8x14 cp437-8x14.fnt MODE_346" In /etc/rc.conf. On my video hardware, mode 346 is: 346 (0x15a) 0x0000000f G 1600x1200x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x88000000 8000k That gives me a 1600x1200 raster display using an 8x14 font, for a console size of 85 rows and 200 columns. You can experiment with different modes (and font sizes) until you find a combination that a) works and b) you like. Use vidcontrol from the command line to experiment before modifying rc.conf, so you can switch to another virtual terminal if you switch to an unsupported mode. HTH, JN