From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 04:39:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BF616A4CF for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 04:39:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.2u2.nu (2u2.nu [62.59.31.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CFF43D31 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 04:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listman@2u2.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.2u2.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C131F776 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:39:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.2u2.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (atlantis [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00440-05 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:38:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.2u2.nu (Postfix, from userid 109) id 0F1591F779; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:38:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:38:57 +0100 From: List Man To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031228123857.GA635@atlantis.local.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031227105924.GA28181@atlantis.local.net> <20031227181454.GA1775@goku.kasby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031227181454.GA1775@goku.kasby> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: SunOS atlantis 5.9 sparc X-Sender: listman@2u2.nu X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Subject: Re: 1024x768 on a toshiba 8100 tecra in a text (Non X) Console screen X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: listman@2u2.nu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:39:32 -0000 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 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!