It depends(tm). I think the VT code just does "640x480x4bpp" and lets the BIOS sort it out. A lot of things don't cope well with 640x480 these days - they try autodetecting picture edges, but a black border makes that very difficult.
-adrian On 14 January 2017 at 08:57, Matthias Andree <matthias.and...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 14.01.2017 um 00:11 schrieb Alan Somers: >> I take it back. The first three columns _are_ rendered, but they >> don't show up on some monitiors. It's as if those monitors require a >> minimum amount of overscan on the left side of the screen, and vt(4) >> doesn't provide enough. Can that be tuned? > > Once upon a time, I've seen similar things on Linux, but with fewer > pixels offset, when switching framebuffer drivers - back then, the > scanning-VGA-timing was an issue. Is there any way to tweak the row and > column timings, with blank periods, viewport offsets and thereabouts? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"