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.... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
