On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 11:37 pm, Thomas Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Mark,
>
> That was my thought too, but it’s not hooked up to anything except power
> and ethernet.
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 at 11:24 pm, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> > From: Thomas Sullivan <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > HI all,
>> >
>> > I've just installed 6.3 on my Early 2008 MacBook, with `inteldrm`
>> graphics
>> > and the console resolution seems misconfigured such that the screen
>> > resolution is the full panel resolution at 1280x800 but the console
>> itself
>> > much smaller, and restricted to the top left corner. Since then I've
>> > upgraded to the latest snapshot (22-Apr-2018) to no avail.
>> >
>> > `wsconsctl` shows:
>> >
>> > ```
>> > # wsconsctl display
>> > display.type=inteldrm
>> > display.width=848
>> > display.height=480
>> > display.depth=32
>> > display.emulations=vt100
>> > display.screentypes=std
>> > display.focus=0
>> > display.brightness=97.97%
>> > display.screen_on=250
>> > display.screen_off=0
>> > display.vblank=off
>> > display.kbdact=on
>> > display.msact=on
>> > display.outact=on
>> > ```
>> >
>> > Attached is `dmesg` from a kernel built with:
>> >
>> > ```
>> > option  DRMDEBUG
>> > option  MSGBUFSIZE=65536
>> > ```
>> >
>> > and a picture of the console (spewing data to fill the available space).
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Tom Sullivan
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> Thanks for providing the DRMDEBUG dmesg.  For some reason the
>> inteldrm(4) code detects a connection on the S-Video connector.  Since
>> the default is to mirror the console framebuffer on all connected
>> outputs, the framebuffer is configured as 848x480 such that the full
>> contents are visible on both outputs.
>>
>> It seems this model does indeed have a S-Video output.  Do you have
>> that hooked up to something?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> --
Regards,

Tom Sullivan

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