Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 09:17:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Sascha Vieweg <saschaview@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1104090901390.55605@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1104081808050.15924@vyvhz.ybpny> References: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1104081808050.15924@vyvhz.ybpny>
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Sascha Vieweg wrote: > As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a > MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) > console: > > (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling' > (2) have a screen resolution of at least 800x600. vidcontrol(1) can set different modes, potentially including VESA_800x600. What's available depends on the video card BIOS and you'll probably have to build a kernel with SC_PIXEL_MODE. > Both things seem to be no particular problem in X11, however, I cannot find > advices for the normal console. Unless you're trying to emulate a machine without X11 for a particular purpose, xterms are more versatile than consoles. It's probably possible to get a console-like stack of fullscreen xterms with one of the mouseless window managers.
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