Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:06:00 +0200 From: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitor Resolution??? Message-ID: <20040811050559.GA4417@oliverfuchs.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <2264717.1092166055631.JavaMail.root@statler.psp.pas.earthlink.net> References: <2264717.1092166055631.JavaMail.root@statler.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a question that may be trivial to most however, I don't seem to know how to modify my monitor resolution. I am using FreeBSD without X windows install. Text only and the font and overall resolution is 'HUGE'. I recently installed 4.10 (last night) but I don't know where I went wrong with this? Thanks in advance for your help. > An acceptable resolution is VESA_800x600 (I do not think that the kernel can do more at the moment?). To enable it you have to recompile your kernel with option SC_PIXEL_MODE enabled (so you can use the raster text mode). Then load the vesa support with kldload vesa and try "vidconrtol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600". If it is o.k. for you put in your /etc/rc.conf file: allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" and add to /boot/loader.conf: vesa_load="YES" to load the vesa module at startup. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit
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