From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 21:16:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4575F16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:16:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0611A43D1F for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:16:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.128] (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0734881 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:16:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:16:46 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050130205650.C370416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050130205650.C370416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501301616.47663.allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:16:57 -0000 On Sunday 20 Shvat 5765 15:56, Julian Elischer wrote: > If anyone knows what the Linux "vga=793" or (whatever it is) > kernel option does and whether there is somethign equivalent for freeBSD > that would be interesting. It's a VESA mode + 0x100, expressed in decimal. 793 = 0x319 = 1280x1024x15bit. If you can determine the actual video mode needed, it might be possible to use vidcontrol to set it before running the server. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH