Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:38:57 +0100 From: List Man <listman@2u2.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1024x768 on a toshiba 8100 tecra in a text (Non X) Console screen Message-ID: <20031228123857.GA635@atlantis.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20031227181454.GA1775@goku.kasby> References: <20031227105924.GA28181@atlantis.local.net> <20031227181454.GA1775@goku.kasby>
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Hi, I seems indeed that only the VESA_800x600 can be set. I had hopes that this would not be the case.. Anyway right know I am having too many system freezes when trying to start X.. most of the time starting X will just freeze the whole system. But that is another issue since I am using 5.2 RC2 and this is not the right place to discuss this. I use FreeBSD for server (Proxy, DNS, DHCP etc) purposes for I am used to it an knows how to tweak it for very high performance. I work the whole day with a text interface so I want something different when at home. I want it to be easy enough to setup without the need to recompile or set any special settings in for instance device.hints or loader.conf. I used to use Apple for this and later on Windows.. Greetings, Lucio On 0, Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@yahoo.it> wrote: :On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 11:59:24AM +0100, List Man wrote: snip :> I want to be able to use my full screen in text (Not X) mode. Right now the :> standard resolution is 640x480 and I would like to get it to 1024x768. :> :> When I do a "vidcontrol -i mode" I get plenty of resolution options :> presented. :> :> One of them : :> 261 (0x105) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xf0000000 8192k :> :> "vidcontrol -g 1024x768x8" will not give me error messages but the screen resolution :> doesn't change. :> :> This is a piece of my dmesg output : :> VESA: v2.0, 8192k memory, flags:0x0, mode table:0xc0a01c82 (1000022) :> VESA: S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS :> :> In case some of you might wonder where you can get splash screens, this is where I got :> mine : http://www.baldwin.cx/splash/. :> snip : :From vidcontrol(1) manpage: : :[...] : mode Select a new video mode. The modes currently recognized are: : 80x25, 80x30, 80x43, 80x50, 80x60, 132x25, 132x30, 132x43, : 132x50, 132x60, VGA_40x25, VGA_80x25, VGA_80x30, VGA_80x50, : VGA_80x60, VGA_90x25, VGA_90x30, VGA_90x43, VGA_90x50, VGA_90x60, : EGA_80x25, EGA_80x43, VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, : VESA_132x60. The raster text mode VESA_800x600 can also be cho- : sen. See Video Mode Support below. :[...] : :It seems that you can't set 1024x768 VESA mode, only 800x600. :Furthermore, to achieve this you have to recompile your kernel with the :SC_PIXEL_MODE option. : :See section 'Video Mode Support', as suggested in the above snippet. : : Francesco Casadei : -- :wq!
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