[GLLUG] FreeBSD console res

[Ben Pfaff]

"Jo Dillon" <jo@groupinfo.com> writes:

> On 15 Sep 2002 at 16:55, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know how/where to up the resolution of the console on
> > FreeBSD?  I did a quick google with no luck.  Its currently at the
> > default 640x480, and I'd like to kick it up to 1280x1024 or something.
> 
>   Hmm, so the VESA support in FreeBSD lets you change the resolution at 
> runtime? Does anybody know why the Linux VESA framebuffer can only set 
> the resolution once at boot? :)

The Linux VESA framebuffer doesn't support calling back into the
real-mode code after boot.  Either FreeBSD knows about a
protected-mode interface to VESA that Linux doesn't, or it
switches temporarily into real mode to do mode changes.  I seem
to recall that there were experimental patches to the Linux code
to do the latter.  I'm not sure what their fate was.
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