[GLLUG] FreeBSD console res
Adam McDougall
mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:46:22 -0400
-mode (-m) != mode
-m on | off
Switch the mouse pointer on or off.
mode Select a new video mode.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 06:00:35PM -0400, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
I got the VESA kernel extension loaded, and was able to load an 8x16
font, but when I try "vidcontrol -mode xxx" I get one of the following
errors:
[user@machine:~]: vidcontrol -mode VESA_800x600
"vidcontrol: cannot activate raster display: Inappropriate ioctl for
device"
and
[user@machine:~]: vidcontrol -mode 132x50
"vidcontrol: argument to -m must either on or off"
"vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Operation not supported by device"
any ideas?
-Mike
On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 05:28 PM, Adam McDougall wrote:
>You probably need to kldload vesa or have it in your kernel,
>then use vidcontrol mode 132x60 or VESA_800x600, something like
>that. I believe certain modes require a nondefault font to
>be loaded with vidcontrol -f first. As always, see the
>manpage. You may not be able to acheive as high of a resolution
>as you want, but you should be able to improve on 80x25.
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