framebuffer at wrong resolution?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote:
> Hey everybody :)
>
> I've hit yet another wall, this time a minor one, comparatively.
>
> My display and video card are usually set at 1280*1024, this even
> happens in X under FreeBSD with no issues.
>
> Yet for some reason the framebuffer is at 1024*768. I'm told this is
> autodetected.
>
> Is there anything I can put in /boot/device.hints or tell the bootloader
> to do automatically on every startup, to make my framebuffer have a res
> of 1280*1024? 
>
> Cheers,
> -- Horst.
>   
This is inherited from Open Firmware. You can play with the screen 
device's set-mode word in order to change it, but the ofw syscons driver 
itself has no ability to change the resolution.
-Nathan