Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:24:46 -0700 From: Jared Evans <jnevans@gmail.com> To: Ask FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image? Message-ID: <2cbc9d820510141024i80098bdpee425dd4d0eb19b6@mail.gmail.com>
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I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online weren't really applicable for me. I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under VMWare= . It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD runnin= g under VMWare, I ran across this error message: > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console bu= t strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution without any problems. After some googling: VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual displa= y adapter in VMWare does. in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in line 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if Xorg can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the console! Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more we= b searches: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VGA_WIDTH90 rebooting then: > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: operation not supported by device Any more tips for me?
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