Re: higher resolution console screen?
Björn König wrote: bob self wrote: How can I undo the patch if I need to? Repeat all steps but add the option -R to "patch", e.g. bzip2 -cd vesa.patch.bz2 | patch -p0 -R Björn Good. I removed the patch and I have the 37x100 screen back by using vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 Is this the highest console resolution that you can get with FreeBSD 5.4 and without the patch? I think that the patch didn't work for me. thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: higher resolution console screen?
bob self wrote: How can I undo the patch if I need to? Repeat all steps but add the option -R to "patch", e.g. bzip2 -cd vesa.patch.bz2 | patch -p0 -R Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: higher resolution console screen?
Björn König wrote: bob self wrote: I have done all 3 of these things and I do get 100x37, but I was able to get 128x48 when I was trying FreeBSD 6.0 beta 4 by running "vidcontrol MODE_280". Is there a way to accomplish this in 5.4? Only with a patch. Do it at your own risk: cd /usr/src fetch http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/dateien/etc/vesa.patch.bz2 bzip2 -cd vesa.patch.bz2 | patch -p0 cd usr.sbin/vidcontrol make && make install cp etc/rc.d/moused /etc/rc.d build your kernel with options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VESA and reboot. vidcontrol -i mode will show all available modes. And so on. You know the rest. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I installed the patch, rebooted etc. Now vidcontrol MODE_280 says: vidcontrol: activating raster display: Operation not supported by device Also, 'vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600' no longer works. I now get vidcontrol: obtaining new video mode parameters: Operation not supported by device So, does any one know what's going on? How can I undo the patch if I need to? thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: higher resolution console screen?
bob self wrote: I have done all 3 of these things and I do get 100x37, but I was able to get 128x48 when I was trying FreeBSD 6.0 beta 4 by running "vidcontrol MODE_280". Is there a way to accomplish this in 5.4? Only with a patch. Do it at your own risk: cd /usr/src fetch http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/dateien/etc/vesa.patch.bz2 bzip2 -cd vesa.patch.bz2 | patch -p0 cd usr.sbin/vidcontrol make && make install cp etc/rc.d/moused /etc/rc.d build your kernel with options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VESA and reboot. vidcontrol -i mode will show all available modes. And so on. You know the rest. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: higher resolution console screen?
Luke Dean wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, bob self wrote: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 20 15:33:58 EDT 2005 I have a 19" LCD monitor and usually run in console mode. My screen resolution is 80x25, but I'd like to get something like 120 x 60 if possible. I've played with vidcontrol, but so far can't get it to do anything useful. Also my console screen is now shifted to the left one character, but when I run startx my gui screen is shifted to the right about 1 character. My card is a nvidia card with 128 megs or ram and I have enabled vesa in the kernel and have vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. However, I get this error in dmesg: module_register: module vesa already exists! Module vesa failed to register: 17 How can I fix these problems? About the left/right shifting.. I also have a 19" LCD monitor, Nvidia card (a GeForce FX 5500), vesa enabled in the kernel, and I used to get a shifting problem like you describe. I switched from Xorg's nv driver to Nvidia's linux driver (ports/x11/nvidia-driver) and the shifting problem went away. I'm using a kvm switch to switch between winxp and 5.4. I changed "nv" in /etc/X11 to "nvidia" (since kldstat showed that nvidia.ko was loaded) and now my gui screen looks pretty good so far. I was able to use a monitor menu-item to 'resync' and got the console screen left-right centered again in console mode. Before I switched, resyncing the monitor would correct the problem. Mine is a dual-boot machine that runs WinXP and FreeBSD 5.4, and since switching to Nvidia's driver made the problem go away, I reasoned that the nv driver and the Nvidia driver for Windows were confusing the monitor by using slightly different refresh rates for the same screen mode or something, and that's why I had to resync it every time I rebooted from one OS to the other. thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: higher resolution console screen?
Björn König wrote: This message wants to tell you that if you already have VESA support in your kernel then you don't need to load the kernel module. Thanks I removed the loader.conf line an that error message went away. Make sure that you also have "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" beside "options VESA" in your kernel configuration file. Change the console mode with vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 and add allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" to rc.conf to let this setting be applied to all consoles after reboot. Björn I have done all 3 of these things and I do get 100x37, but I was able to get 128x48 when I was trying FreeBSD 6.0 beta 4 by running "vidcontrol MODE_280". Is there a way to accomplish this in 5.4? I still have the left-right shifting problem. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: higher resolution console screen?
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, bob self wrote: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 20 15:33:58 EDT 2005 I have a 19" LCD monitor and usually run in console mode. My screen resolution is 80x25, but I'd like to get something like 120 x 60 if possible. I've played with vidcontrol, but so far can't get it to do anything useful. Also my console screen is now shifted to the left one character, but when I run startx my gui screen is shifted to the right about 1 character. My card is a nvidia card with 128 megs or ram and I have enabled vesa in the kernel and have vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. However, I get this error in dmesg: module_register: module vesa already exists! Module vesa failed to register: 17 How can I fix these problems? About the left/right shifting.. I also have a 19" LCD monitor, Nvidia card (a GeForce FX 5500), vesa enabled in the kernel, and I used to get a shifting problem like you describe. I switched from Xorg's nv driver to Nvidia's linux driver (ports/x11/nvidia-driver) and the shifting problem went away. Before I switched, resyncing the monitor would correct the problem. Mine is a dual-boot machine that runs WinXP and FreeBSD 5.4, and since switching to Nvidia's driver made the problem go away, I reasoned that the nv driver and the Nvidia driver for Windows were confusing the monitor by using slightly different refresh rates for the same screen mode or something, and that's why I had to resync it every time I rebooted from one OS to the other. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: higher resolution console screen?
bob self wrote: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 20 15:33:58 EDT 2005 I have a 19" LCD monitor and usually run in console mode. My screen resolution is 80x25, but I'd like to get something like 120 x 60 if possible. I've played with vidcontrol, but so far can't get it to do anything useful. Also my console screen is now shifted to the left one character, but when I run startx my gui screen is shifted to the right about 1 character. My card is a nvidia card with 128 megs or ram and I have enabled vesa in the kernel and have vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. However, I get this error in dmesg: module_register: module vesa already exists! Module vesa failed to register: 17 This message wants to tell you that if you already have VESA support in your kernel then you don't need to load the kernel module. Make sure that you also have "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" beside "options VESA" in your kernel configuration file. Change the console mode with vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 and add allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" to rc.conf to let this setting be applied to all consoles after reboot. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
higher resolution console screen?
5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 20 15:33:58 EDT 2005 I have a 19" LCD monitor and usually run in console mode. My screen resolution is 80x25, but I'd like to get something like 120 x 60 if possible. I've played with vidcontrol, but so far can't get it to do anything useful. Also my console screen is now shifted to the left one character, but when I run startx my gui screen is shifted to the right about 1 character. My card is a nvidia card with 128 megs or ram and I have enabled vesa in the kernel and have vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. However, I get this error in dmesg: module_register: module vesa already exists! Module vesa failed to register: 17 How can I fix these problems? thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
