On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:05:00PM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: > Bomgardner,Jon extolled: > > > > Other than that I've just been learning a lot of nifty features like > > changing the number of rows on the display, changing colors, how to set > > up a splash screen, etc... Fun times! > > > > Thanks, > > Jon > > > > Maybe you can provide some links to some of these nifty features? > > I use a laptop w/fbsd, and X has no issues running at 1024x768, but I am > unsure also how to get the console to that resolution - I can stretch my > default 640x480 (I think) to take up the whole screen, but it looks > pretty awful....
Here, the contents of my /etc/rc.conf font8x8="iso-8x8" font8x14="iso-8x14" font8x16="iso-8x16" allscreens_flags="80x60" The relevant lines from my kernel config: options VESA These are for my desktop. Some interesting things you can do on a laptop or desktop: vidcontrol -b red Will set a border around your screen (in some cases) to red. vidcontrol -i mode Will show you what your hardware can support. IIRC, adding VESA to the kernel options will make it possible to gain access to more of the possible resolutions. I don't have my laptop bits in front of me just now. In any event, read the man page for vidcontrol; and twiddle a virtual terminal if you play with colors; you can find out the possible combos with vidcontrol show. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"