Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server

Dimitry Andric dimitry at andric.com
Sun Jan 30 13:18:40 PST 2005


On 2005-01-30 at 21:56:50 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 sets VESA video mode 0x0219 (= 793-256 = 0x319-0x100), of which I'm
unsure what it is on your system. :)  You can probably set this
through vesa.ko, but I'm not sure how, there seems to be no
documentation... (vesa(4) is about the X.org vesa driver, afaics.)
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