From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jan 29 14:44:11 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D39ECACA7 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:44:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.130]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1968F768A8 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:44:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.195.213.55]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue007 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LiJxI-1fCDhB38to-00clSJ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:44:05 +0100 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:44:04 +0100 From: Polytropon To: "@lbutlr" Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Setting console resultion Message-Id: <20180129154404.f1662f20.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5919B7EF-A04A-47CD-AFE1-3B2290420AEF@kreme.com> References: <5919B7EF-A04A-47CD-AFE1-3B2290420AEF@kreme.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:BK7bOmWKCsAQMwOMhYV1GTDUaP/WxnDd9njzakM17QfJGixYVdb GvBOl1t6XLvJI4ltb/J4hylR1xfXulD/9MBVMq6/vPc6cYaOwg0nQqNqzWYpiQbfufu0Rpu nEaOkMkUPzdRDpcbyY4G8+QcGRAgIsLl3PeFBLE0Q47Zf1nKAoVHgYbokrzCZUcDDSZswOL +xAxyZNsMtrlDKSRrAwfw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:uCYS6lkl4p4=:FyEQ2pNF94T993KDKXpUG3 X0SYff4MckfGR7bS5aFjFApGoSXWrbHJOkXRdTBzZJQJtKRHpiphg/gzd5wSrFj5HZvHGmDGX k7IwI83Pa5dI5muENmoig7vuAR3KAYK3oxz8przikpWNYEeWuYNBZW4yV2qzCa+hWR59/MO08 UvVmVr9CeQIB3ZGh0F3qj/5R2LPkISSeL16a/HnyucVnF0a93vajpSQ6IN3RdalY4eFKs7YrW gzG6cWU0dA7otg6lx9tuH+J7vtIxBZLm9ObgEOzgydECtH2051nfJzM/85bnxEGJNMm60PJGn 3h1laOSX2iySR6EzO1T90McDfKhQsbho4nohBN3GEPLwJskT5ooe+2HLmuYsbgDXTdi3Ek5BL 1P6YGp82o2mLRD0qmuZM4tIvqT8l1hVJJPlJSBgaX6sJ+gQE/GXCN4p2e8XeTi67YmJ4vQ69e rOFQ8ahunti4jcqa0bAXTmpd7PvHFz+/2Z/0VVKIOZ76EdtRIb19+FkcU7OofZCOxcOb824Dc 9SuL/QIWgBCR2ubDgLAk0fPhmbYzquVSAPPQvavSqZs2/ZOHd2FnQJ+bjX2aCaKYY9JNnIB/Z ycQQNymGbnap4SGtovZ8RGuYH0yyaLE7XIXVxXsohuZ0jP+1bO4UmZcOdTdb+UursMEhhX2Yq MgGtT7P8vBfFKgcnn72NY2usQebAT9N3Eqg4bna93ZKhB4sgnSG4QXmeMk39X0c4g0Fhdy9ai Y2OrgwtvKbt9fYGkH05kUibFkXW6uZai/Z+ujZMi+kqlaJjroiLNKQJr7Co= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:44:11 -0000 On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 02:37:05 -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > I'm not sure why this is so hard, but I've read dozens of pages > and threads on setting up the console to boot into something > other than VGA 80x24 and I can't get anything to change the > resolution. I think with vt, it's the exact opposite problem: You cannot set it to 80x25 anymore. ;-) > I have an old Core 2 duo machine with a 27" screen. Once I > change by boot.conf to use sc instead of vt, I can see the > mode that I want (1920x1440x32) but I cannot get the screen > to change. > > vidcontrol mode > This is a fresh install of 11.1. > > If I try to load the intel driver, the screen goes blank. If you are using X, you cannot use sc anymore. X requires the use of vt now. > The onboard video connector not he machine is VGA, so even > though the monitor supports higher resolutions, I don't think > those would work. > > I've also tried 1024x600, just to see if I can get *something* > to work. If you can, use the exact size of your monitor (in pixels); I assume you're talking about a LCD monitor, which is common today, as hardly anyone still uses CRTs like I do (which can have more than one mode, while LCDs only have one physical mode, determined by the amount of pixels). > Every attempt requires changing /boot/loader.conf and then > rebooting, so it gets very aggravating very quickly, and I > can't find consistent information since most of the pages > i've found refer to FreeBSD 9.x or 10.x (or sometimes > earlier) and it appears a lot has changed in 11.x. The vt documentation isn't fully complete yet, but here is a good starting point: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons Maybe this is helpful too: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/49601/ https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/55222/ > I did manage to get a screensaver to load, which switches > resolutions, but I can't get the console to show anything > but 80x24 text which it overscan on the screen so the first > and last character positions are clipped. In all settings I've tested, vt has always changed the "text mode" resolution from 80x25 to something much bigger (and therefore unreadable tiny ugly characters). The key is that you now cannot set a screen size (in columns x lines), instead you have to deal with fonts, the screen's size in pixels (if it has any), and this also depends on the OS version... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...