Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server

Sun Jan 30 13:16:57 PST 2005

On Sunday 20 Shvat 5765 15:56, Julian Elischer wrote:
> If anyone knows what the Linux "vga=793" or (whatever it is)
> kernel option does and whether there is somethign equivalent for freeBSD
> that would be interesting.

It's a VESA mode + 0x100, expressed in decimal.  793 = 0x319 = 
1280x1024x15bit.

If you can determine the actual video mode needed, it might be possible to use 
vidcontrol to set it before running the server.

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