Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:59:54 +0300 From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau789@gmail.com> To: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>, freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Setting display dimensions Message-ID: <f90f294d-bcaf-2481-d34d-06fb52acd855@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gL%2BOpZiPc0YK5ojNXDz3_gG_PF9aX3t5rP3FCUA3s6WLw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20E27B10-1A2B-4635-A8C6-7CF784599031@gmail.com> <CADqw_gL%2BOpZiPc0YK5ojNXDz3_gG_PF9aX3t5rP3FCUA3s6WLw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2019-09-24 11:52, Michael Schuster wrote: > > I think it'd help if you let us know whether you're talking > about console mode or X-Window ... > (and no, I have no idea off hand what to do in either case ... but > perhaps someone who does will be more willing to jump in when more > information is provided) Oops... My bad. I really should have mentioned that I was thinking of the VT console. > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:45 AM Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com > <mailto:jau789@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > Recently I bought a small HDMI connected 1024x600 pixels TFT > display. It seems that 11-stable does not find the correct dimensions > automatically. The kernel apparently assumes the display to be far > larger than it actually is and a lot of text simply disappears below > the lower edge of the screen. So, I assumed there might be some > method to tell the kernel the default dimensions to use when it fails > to confirm the actual values from the display device itself. > > Now I would like to check whether I am interpreting things correctly. > Apparently there is kernel MIB variable for this purpose on 12.x series > (kern.vt.fb.default_mode) but not on 11.x. If this is true, I would > like to > understand why is the feature not available on 11-stable as well? > Have I understood the meaning of the default_mode variable correctly > for 12.x and will it work properly for a 1024x600 display? > > Moving over to 12-stable will not be a big issue on a new system, if > that is necessary, but I would like to avoid taking the effort of > upgrade > unless I can be relatively sure it will solve my problem. > > --jau
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