From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 19:20:45 2003 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 5C60537B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD04143F3F for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:20:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 984F24FC8A; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FE84A0E; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Dilshod Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Customizing the consol - Changing the resolution In-Reply-To: <006101c2bdd3$824f0100$5f4f0844@DT> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dilshod wrote: > Subject: Customizing the consol - Changing the resolution > > Hello there, > I'm kind of new to FreeBSD, in terms of the structure the OS. I've > installed FreeBSD 5.0 RC 3 before I had version 4.7. I install the OS to > explore and learn about it, so far I love it. > Here is my question: How can I change the resolution of the consol ? > By default it's set to 640x480. I've read there is a way to display a > splash image at higher resolution, but I'm not sure if it will stay > afterwards. Basically I want to set the consol resolution at 1024 or > higher, like I once had done in a Slackware Linux installation. > > > Thanks, > DT. > I believe you can fiddle with your console settings using vidcontrol(1). I've never tried it, but that's the tool. Note that in Unix if you're looking for help on a specific topic, try the 'apropos' command. Try: $ apropos console HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message