Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?
Worked like a charm!! Thanks for your expert help!! I'm glad to know that the next release of FreeBSD will have this all built in. Jared On 10/15/05, Jared Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for taking the time to reply. I shall try your patch and see if I can get it to work. Jared On 10/14/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/14/05, Jared Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online weren't really applicable for me. I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under VMWare. It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD running under VMWare, I ran across this error message: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console but strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution without any problems. After some googling: VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual display adapter in VMWare does. in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in line 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if Xorg can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the console! Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more web searches: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VGA_WIDTH90 rebooting then: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: operation not supported by device Any more tips for me? You computer (VMware) doesn't have a proper VESA BIOS and that is why 800x600 raster text mode won't work etc. FreeBSD 6 has this all worked just put 'allscreens_flags=MODE_279' in rc.conf for 1024x768... you can get a list of other modes supported by typing in vidcontrol -i MODE (I think, can never remember :-)). if you want this for FreeBSD 5.x then your going to have to manually patch your system, but I have a simple script that will do it for you. somewhere around here.. check for patch errors after you run the script. -- cd /tmp rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz rm -r current-vesa_patch tar -zxf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons patch /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1 cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c make make install make clean - You still need to put in your kernel (both FreeBSD 5 and 6): options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE and when you cvsup your src in FreeBSD 5 you will need to reapply the patch, cvsup will overwrite the files becouse the cvs revision tags don't match up. Anyways -- http://jarednevans.typepad.com -- http://jarednevans.typepad.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I shall try your patch and see if I can get it to work. Jared On 10/14/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/14/05, Jared Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online weren't really applicable for me. I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under VMWare. It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD running under VMWare, I ran across this error message: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console but strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution without any problems. After some googling: VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual display adapter in VMWare does. in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in line 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if Xorg can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the console! Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more web searches: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VGA_WIDTH90 rebooting then: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: operation not supported by device Any more tips for me? You computer (VMware) doesn't have a proper VESA BIOS and that is why 800x600 raster text mode won't work etc. FreeBSD 6 has this all worked just put 'allscreens_flags=MODE_279' in rc.conf for 1024x768... you can get a list of other modes supported by typing in vidcontrol -i MODE (I think, can never remember :-)). if you want this for FreeBSD 5.x then your going to have to manually patch your system, but I have a simple script that will do it for you. somewhere around here.. check for patch errors after you run the script. -- cd /tmp rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz rm -r current-vesa_patch tar -zxf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons patch /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1 cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c make make install make clean - You still need to put in your kernel (both FreeBSD 5 and 6): options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE and when you cvsup your src in FreeBSD 5 you will need to reapply the patch, cvsup will overwrite the files becouse the cvs revision tags don't match up. Anyways -- http://jarednevans.typepad.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?
I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online weren't really applicable for me. I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under VMWare. It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD running under VMWare, I ran across this error message: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console but strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution without any problems. After some googling: VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual display adapter in VMWare does. in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in line 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if Xorg can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the console! Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more web searches: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VGA_WIDTH90 rebooting then: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: operation not supported by device Any more tips for me? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?
I looked over the link but I don't think it's related to the solution I'm looking for. I don't have any problems with high resolution X console. I'm talking about the regular text console when you first boot the machine. Jared yeah...you'll need to install the vmware tools for FreeBSD. Here's the link: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html#1008244http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html#1008244 I was in the same situation and it worked for me. Teo On 10/14/05, Jared Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online weren't really applicable for me. I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under VMWare. It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD running under VMWare, I ran across this error message: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console but strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution without any problems. After some googling: VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual display adapter in VMWare does. in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in line 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if Xorg can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the console! Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more web searches: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VGA_WIDTH90 rebooting then: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: operation not supported by device Any more tips for me? -- http://jarednevans.typepad.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
