Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:41:03 -0700 From: "Dominic" <clone@sduteam.com> To: "'Rohit Panda'" <prohit99@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: enabling VESA support in FreeBSD recompilation ??? Message-ID: <002e01c15334$4d0ce4e0$130aa840@tml> In-Reply-To: <20011012085936.37420.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com>
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http://groups.google.com/groups?q=console+resolution&hl=en&rnum=10&selm= Pine.OSF.4.33.0103272241440.27878-100000%40cpu.WPI.EDU Search Result 10 From: C. Boumenot (boum@wpi.edu) Subject: Re: Console Resolution and Syslogd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc View: Complete Thread (7 articles) | Original Format Date: 2001-03-27 19:54:54 PST Thanks for the advice, on the syslogd, works like a charm! For changing the screen resolution I did something slightly easier/different. 1.) kldload vesa, or add 'options VESA' to the kernel 2.) vidcontrol -i mode # to display all available video modes 3.) vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8 132x43 # sets a good resolution 4.) add this to rc.conf # make sure VESA is already loaded or a part of # the kernel before hand font8x8="iso-8x8" allscreens_flags="132x43" Chris On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > "C. Boumenot" wrote: > > > Two questions: > > > > First, is it possible to increase the screen resolution at boot up for the > > console. I don't run X, and I would like to have more screen space > > available. > > Sure. First, you will need to hack /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol.c a bit. > There are macros defined in the very beginning, called something like > VESA_800x600_COLS and VESA_800x600_ROWS. Those defaulted to (why would they > do that? I really do not know) to 80x25. Simple math will show you that these > numbers actually better be changed to 100x37 (for 8x16 font). > After that, in the vidcontrol directory, say make all install clean. You're > done! Now use your new vidcontrol proggy just as before, using VESA_800x600 > video mode. I've tried doing the same for 1024x768, but it didn't work out > for some reason :( > > > Second, is it possible to capture syslogd output to a terminal, so I can > > just hit Alt-F12 and see the logs as they come in. > > Yeah, sure. Add this line to your /etc/ttys (actually, this is not needed, > but I'd rather do this anyway): > > ttyvb none off > > Hup init (kill -1 1) after that, or, better, say init -q. > > Then, add this line to your /etc/syslog.conf (remember, spaces are NOT valid > separators here): > > *.* /dev/ttyvb > > And hup your syslogd: kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`. > > You are done! > > > ;======================================; ; ____ _ _ ; ;| _ \ ___ _ __ ___ (_)_ __ (_) ___ ; ;| | | |/ _ \| '_ ` _ \| | '_ \| |/ __|; ;| |_| | (_) | | | | | | | | | | | (__ ; ;|____/ \___/|_| |_| |_|_|_| |_|_|\___|; ; ; ;======================================; -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Rohit Panda Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 2:00 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: enabling VESA support in FreeBSD recompilation ??? hi, iam trying to recompile the kernel with VESA support in my 4.3 release Freebsd.here's the output from the command vidcontrol -i mode 1:49 PM 10/12/01 mode# flags type size font window linear buffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ 0 (0x000) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 1 (0x001) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 2 (0x002) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 3 (0x003) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 4 (0x004) 0x00000003 G 320x200x2 1 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 5 (0x005) 0x00000003 G 320x200x2 1 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 6 (0x006) 0x00000003 G 640x200x1 1 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 13 (0x00d) 0x00000003 G 320x200x4 4 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 256k 14 (0x00e) 0x00000003 G 640x200x4 4 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 256k 16 (0x010) 0x00000003 G 640x350x2 2 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 128k 18 (0x012) 0x00000003 G 640x350x4 4 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 256k 19 (0x013) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 20 (0x014) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 21 (0x015) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 22 (0x016) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 23 (0x017) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 26 (0x01a) 0x00000003 G 640x480x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 256k 27 (0x01b) 0x00000003 G 640x480x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 256k 28 (0x01c) 0x00000003 G 320x200x8 1 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 64k 30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 37 (0x025) 0x00000003 G 320x240x8 4 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 256k 112 (0x070) 0x00000000 T 80x43 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 113 (0x071) 0x00000001 T 80x43 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k is 1024X768 resolution supported.i think its supported.but what changes should be made to the kernel configuration file to activate the changes after the compilation. 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