Hey, Could someone please enlighten me about the meaning of the "vidcontrol -i mode" output!
Here is some info: I'm using the native freebsd nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com which brings its own nvidia.ko module. My card is a 32mb "Asus AGP-V7100D/2V1D" which uses the nvidia Geforce 2 MX chipset ! I've the following kernel devices/options compiled in my custom kernel: ----------------------------------------- device agp options VESA device vga0 at isa? options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VGA_WIDTH90 ---------------------------------------- Actually I'm using these settings in rc.conf: font8x16="iso-8x16" font8x14="iso-8x14" font8x8="iso-8x8" allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" Here is the output of vidcontrol -i adapter & vidcontrol -i mode : fb0: vga0, type:VESA VGA (5), flags:0x700ff initial mode:24, current mode:258, BIOS mode:3 frame buffer window:0xa0000, buffer size:0x2000000 window size:0x10000, origin:0x0 display start address (0, 0), scan line width:100 reserved:0x0 mode# flags type size font window linear buffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 40 (0x028) 0x00000001 T 90x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 42 (0x02a) 0x00000001 T 90x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 46 (0x02e) 0x00000001 T 90x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 48 (0x030) 0x00000001 T 90x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 256 (0x100) 0x0000000f G 640x400x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 257 (0x101) 0x0000000f G 640x480x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 258 (0x102) 0x0000000b G 800x600x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 32768k 259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 260 (0x104) 0x0000000b G 1024x768x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 32768k 261 (0x105) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 262 (0x106) 0x0000000b G 1280x1024x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 32768k 263 (0x107) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 264 (0x108) 0x0000000d T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0xe8000000 32768k 270 (0x10e) 0x0000000f G 320x200x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 271 (0x10f) 0x0000000f G 320x200x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 273 (0x111) 0x0000000f G 640x480x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 274 (0x112) 0x0000000f G 640x480x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 276 (0x114) 0x0000000f G 800x600x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 277 (0x115) 0x0000000f G 800x600x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 279 (0x117) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 280 (0x118) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 282 (0x11a) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 304 (0x130) 0x0000000f G 320x200x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 305 (0x131) 0x0000000f G 320x400x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 306 (0x132) 0x0000000f G 320x400x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 307 (0x133) 0x0000000f G 320x400x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 308 (0x134) 0x0000000f G 320x240x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 309 (0x135) 0x0000000f G 320x240x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 310 (0x136) 0x0000000f G 320x240x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 317 (0x13d) 0x0000000f G 640x400x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 318 (0x13e) 0x0000000f G 640x400x32 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32768k 1) Now!? How to I set a mode like 132x60 or for instance I'm using 100x37 but this mode is not listed here!? Why? 2) What kind of mode (see first column) is mode 282 or 279? How can I set this mode? 3) Why I can't I set a mode like: VESA_132x60? Are not all modern cards able to display these console resolution? 4) How do the different column ouput actually, like flags, type, linear buffer help me or even the size column for example: 1024x768x16, what do I know with this output? Thanks Didier To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message