Custom VESA modes on FreeBSD 7?

[Mike Meyer]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:15:45 +0100 Rui Paulo <rpaulo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 07:15:33PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I'm trying to get FreeBSD 7-RELEASE running in a VirtualBox VM to use
> > all of my LCD panel in X. The running X is using the vesa driver,
> > which should be cool for this, as VirtualBox has provisions for
> > creating custom vesa modes. And in fact, the Xorg.0.log file shows
> > that it sees the new mode - but it doesn't use it.
> > 
> > The VirtualBox docs note that for Linux to use such a mode, you have
> > to provide a "vga" command line option with the new mode # in it to
> > the linux kernel. None of the FreeBSD boot parameters seem applicable
> > here.
> > 
> > Basically, the question is - what do I have to do to get the X.org
> > vesa driver to use a non-standard vesa mode on FreeBSD? Is there any
> > other information I can attach that might help with this?
> 
> Maybe you need to add a correct ModeLine to your xorg config file ?
> 
> A quick Google search returned:
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=59

Yeah, I had seen that. He's not using the vesa driver; he's using the
VirtualBox driver (not available for FreeBSD as far as I
know).

However, I had tried setting the modelines and modes as suggested, and
this still doesn't work - the vesa driver reports the new mode, but X
never even considers using it.

      Thanks,
      <mike
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