Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

[Schiz0]

That cleared it up. I needed to enable some stuff in my kernel, which was
why vidcontrol wasn't working. I thought it was an error on my behalf.
Thanks.

On 4/2/07, John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday 02 April 2007 01:55:45 pm Schiz0 wrote:
> > I'm wondering how you can increase the resolution of the console in
> FreeBSD
> > stable. I have read the man page on vidcontrol and googled around a bit,
> > but I'm still confused about what to do. I'm currently running FreeBSD
> in
> > VMWare on a windows machine (But that'll change as soon as I learn
> enough
> > to put it up my server, which currently runs linux). I'd like to have
> > something like 1024x768 resolution or so. Also, the man pages mention
> > something about VESA modules. What exactly is this, and do I need it? My
> > kernel is currently compiled without support for it. Would I need to
> > recompile my kernel again?
>
> Without recompiling your kernel, you should be able to do modes like:
> # vidcontrol -f 8x8 cp437-8x8.fnt VGA_80x50
> # vidcontrol -f 8x8 cp437-8x8.fnt VGA_80x60
>
> If you add "options VGA_WIDTH90" to your kernel you can do things like:
> # vidcontrol -f 8x8 cp437-8x8.fnt VGA_90x50
> # vidcontrol -f 8x8 cp437-8x8.fnt VGA_90x60
> (note that not all hardware likes the 90-column modes)
>
> And if you add "options VESA" and "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" to your kernel
> you
> can use any fontsize (of the three: 8x16, 8x14, 8x8) with any VESA video
> mode
> supported by your hardware. You get a list of modes by running "vidcontrol
> -i
> mode" from a virtual terminal. On my machine mode 279 is 1024x768x16. If I
> wanted to use that with an 8x14 font I'd do this:
> # vidcontrol -f 8x14 cp437-8x14.fnt MODE_279
>
> JN
>