Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:44:59 -0400 From: bob self <bobself@charter.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher resolution console screen? Message-ID: <4332993B.3000904@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <43321293.2070201@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <43320FF5.3000706@charter.net> <43321293.2070201@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Björn König wrote: > > This message wants to tell you that if you already have VESA support > in your kernel then you don't need to load the kernel module. Thanks I removed the loader.conf line an that error message went away. > > Make sure that you also have "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" beside "options > VESA" in your kernel configuration file. > > Change the console mode with > > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 > > and add > > allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" > > to rc.conf to let this setting be applied to all consoles after reboot. > > Björn > > I have done all 3 of these things and I do get 100x37, but I was able to get 128x48 when I was trying FreeBSD 6.0 beta 4 by running "vidcontrol MODE_280". Is there a way to accomplish this in 5.4? I still have the left-right shifting problem. Bob
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