Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:35:54 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: framebuffer at wrong resolution? Message-ID: <4957E32A.3030200@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1230483366.24576.16.camel@horst-tla> References: <1230483366.24576.16.camel@horst-tla>
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Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote: > Hey everybody :) > > I've hit yet another wall, this time a minor one, comparatively. > > My display and video card are usually set at 1280*1024, this even > happens in X under FreeBSD with no issues. > > Yet for some reason the framebuffer is at 1024*768. I'm told this is > autodetected. > > Is there anything I can put in /boot/device.hints or tell the bootloader > to do automatically on every startup, to make my framebuffer have a res > of 1280*1024? > > Cheers, > -- Horst. > This is inherited from Open Firmware. You can play with the screen device's set-mode word in order to change it, but the ofw syscons driver itself has no ability to change the resolution. -Nathan
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