Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:05:37 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "dick hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: fbsdq <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608021105t6d278fdbo9966ebc5a6bc471d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060802155810.c38cfaef.dick@nagual.nl> References: <20060802155810.c38cfaef.dick@nagual.nl>
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On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> 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). > This is typical of LCD and notebook screens in any OS. It a limitation of the display technology. Try another mode "vidcontrol -i mode" that has a smaller fonts. You could try forcing the font size smaller but I don't know how to do that. What about MODE_279? > 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. > It's not your imagination. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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