From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 19:32:12 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 1077837B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EA043F13 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:32:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fearow@attbi.com) Received: from god.woofcat.com (12-251-110-17.client.attbi.com[12.251.110.17]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <20030117033209003006324ae>; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 03:32:09 +0000 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:32:00 -0600 From: Anti To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Customizing the consol - Changing the resolution Message-Id: <20030116213200.68a565a4.fearow@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <006101c2bdd3$824f0100$5f4f0844@DT> References: <006101c2bdd3$824f0100$5f4f0844@DT> Organization: Woofcat X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:52:43 -0800 "Dilshod" wrote: > 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. setting allscreens_flags="VESA_132x60" in /etc/rc.conf is all good... also need vesa in the kernel, or load the module... `Anti` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message