lockup with vidcontrol VESA_800x600

[Chris Brennan]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Marc UBM Bocklet <ubm.freebsd at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:45:52 -0500
> Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net> wrote:
>
> > Did you try
> > http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/High_Resolution_Console?
>
> Yeah, those are the kernel settings that I've been using since approx.
> 2004 :-). But the wiki page yielded a new data point - trying to set
> MODE_280 (which corresponds to 1024x768 at 24 on my system, too) locks
> the system up just as well.
>
> Thanks & bye,
> Marc
>
>
Weird because I have this working fine on my amd64 laptop w/ 8.1.