https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288397
Bug ID: 288397
Summary: when using two monitors for a common resolution,
screen output doesn't always fill larger monitor
Product: Base System
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
When using two monitors of different sizes, resolution sometimes spans a
fraction of the larger monitor. For some resolutions, when both match the same
common resolution, the console will fill enough of the screen. When both
screens support 1280x720 and 1024x768, the console will fill most of the screen
on the larger monitor. For lower (like 800x600) or default resolutions, the
console will fill 1/2, or 3/4ths of the screen on the larger monitor.
It seems like, this is so that the text size is the same, to compensate for
different monitor sizes. This would make sense if text was intended to span
across two monitors, or if terminal console mode had multihead, which it
doesn't have.
For 1280x720 and 1024x768, the screen span is close enough, but it would make
more sense for the alignment to be at the bottom for them.
This is for VT in BIOS mode. So, loading vt resolution through
/boot/loader.conf. Also, this applies to drm-61-kmod, as well as previous
versions on previous FreeBSD versions.
Can there be an option in loader.conf for vt so that, both monitors can fill
their screen, based on their supported resolutions. or for close enough
resolutions, align the screen output to the bottom left.
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