Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server

Julian Elischer julian at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Jan 30 17:35:58 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.

The actual mode is 792.. what is that?


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