hi, no, the vt_vga backend doesn't yet do VESA.
I keep meaning to sit down and fix this, but life and wifi gets in the way. -adrian On 14 January 2017 at 16:27, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.ch...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 > > > Can you use vidcontrol(1) to change to something better? 1600x900, maybe? > (Note, I have not tried this and I know that vt does not support a lot of > vidcontrol functionality, but starting X sets the display to 200x56 > characters on my laptop.) > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 > > >> >> 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" > > _______________________________________________ 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"