From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 17:12:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7217F16A4DF for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:12:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phoenix.lists@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0102.google.com (hu-out-0102.google.com [72.14.214.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC58543D6E for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:12:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phoenix.lists@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 27so1714221hub for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:12:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mP6r8FD+2mD45yxCBU3RzsCEz+lk5Wr7aukkLXcLApDc6LXZseSpboArtcyPR9m0BkUzxQtZRAqrbotjMkDu9mCYn66Z3pK4fXgFlXI7qbjCW4zi3SAoS/DjFyMz+Woh/P7zi1EQ7xXWIaJNE7a/1J9EBRcEJMWpWwPZ6nTv0rM= Received: by 10.49.43.11 with SMTP id v11mr2509391nfj; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sp0-host.localdomain ( [85.202.171.205]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id x1sm138786nfb.2006.08.02.09.46.24; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:46:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Phoenix Organization: Phoenix Lab. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:46:08 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060802155810.c38cfaef.dick@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060802155810.c38cfaef.dick@nagual.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3416821.qypprUGsLV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200608021946.17944.phoenix.lists@gmail.com> Subject: Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:12:23 -0000 --nextPart3416821.qypprUGsLV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:58, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console > for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. > > I recompiled the kernel with > options VESA > options SC_PIXEL_MODE > > After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. > Nice, but the characters are just "fat" compared to the chars I get in > Xorg running the same resolution setting (those terminal chars are very > sharp). > > Furthermore it "feels" as though the screen has become a little slower > then without vesa and sc_pixel_mode (in the console). Can this be? Or > is this just my imagination. > > The console resolution has to be delt with because the default font is > really HUGE ;-) > > Question: is VESA the way to go or is it better to leave this out of > the kernel and do just something with the buildin "-f" (font) in > vidcontrol. I have font8x8/8x14/8x16 in my /etc/rc.conf > > Your comments and advise please. Maybe other mode from "vidcontrol -i mode" will be suitable for You. =2D-=20 Best regards, Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.) =2D-------------------------------------------------------------- KeyID: 0x2569D30B =46ingerprint: 78FC 5C40 07CC D331 148E CC79 84B8 D514 2569 D30B =2D-------------------------------------------------------------- --nextPart3416821.qypprUGsLV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE0NbZhLjVFCVp0wsRAqdhAJ4lEl8nc9wgHaK/DpSg3ex4GuokGgCfeVJa 0WVSO0WV32z0ywGY2cbDZh4= =Jnwe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3416821.qypprUGsLV--